Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Rosewood


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. A potential merger can be discussed elsewhere, but there is no consensus for deletion. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 21:45, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Billy Rosewood

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Delete - no independent reliable sources appear to get this past notability. The notability of the film series does not extend to every fictional character within the series. Otto4711 (talk) 22:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete/Merge - Either delete because this is a non-notable character, or merge into one list of all characters in the film. - Marcusmax ( speak ) 22:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 00:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 00:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * keep or merge  - information should probably be merged either into Beverly Hills Cop series or a new "characters of Beverly Hills Cop" type article, but outright deletion isn't the best option. --ThaddeusB (talk) 00:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Changed to "keep" from "keep or merge" per coverage found by Michael Q. --ThaddeusB (talk) 14:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge Even Axel Foley is of questionable stand-alone notability, and no other character from the film series warrants a stand-alone article. Yes, it was a notable series, but it wasn't THAT notable. Eauhomme (talk) 05:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Judge Reinhold. My first thought was to merge it to the article about the film, but Reinhold portrayed the character in two sequels as well.  This is a holdover from the days where Wikipedia was seeking original research articles about people's favorite TV shows and movies, including "biographies" of fictional characters.  I agree with Eauhomme that an article about Axel Foley is unnecessary as well.  I wouldn't mind if these were all grouped into an article about the characters in the film series.  No, I'm not going to mention it on the article's "talk page", assuming it has one.  Screw talk pages, they are silly and a big waste of time.  Mandsford (talk) 12:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable character in several notable films. Also has his own action figure.  See Marvel Minimates Beverly Hills Cop for that.   D r e a m Focus  11:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete there is nothing to merge other than jokes about how the character likes guns. Darrenhusted (talk) 17:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm not sure we even need a characters from BHC article for stuff like this. Matt Deres (talk) 19:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, as it does not matter that it is a character from a notable film as long as the article subject receives coverage in relable sources that meets WP:N.... and "Billy Rosewood" seems to get the coverage. The character was specifically covered and in depth by Time Magazine in 1987, and again by Time Magazine in 2001. And there is significant coverage of the character in relation to the actor: Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Sun-Times... and many others.  This is a case where there is enough to support an article about the character, per the precedents set by Hawkeye Pierce, Hot Lips Houlihan, Archie Bunker, Al Bundy, et al. MichaelQSchmidt (talk) 04:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep User:MichaelQSchmidt has done an excellent job of demonstrating the notability of this topic by reference to independent reliable sources. The case made by the nomination has been refuted. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.