Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Alchemist


 * 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   redirect to Andrew Collins (author). —  Aitias  // discussion 22:57, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Black Alchemist

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Fictional (or is it?) character invented by Andrew Collins. I don't think sources outside of Collins' books will be forthcoming. Does not seem notable enough a character for its own article. ScienceApologist (talk) 07:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions.   —Artw (talk) 07:37, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * redirect To Andrew Collins. the 'psychic questing' series of books redirexts to the author, thus both the idea of derivative notability, and of this as a spinoff article, fail to explain it. further, it's full of cite needed tags for stuff that's apparently just 'rumors in the scene' at best, which can't really ever be supported. If fully removed we'd have 'the black alchemist is the antagonist in a series of novels by AC call PQ.' not even enough for a stub or to assert notability, which is not at all asserted now. ThuranX (talk) 09:24, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect per ThuranX - I can't find any evidence for the real world notability of this character. Scog (talk) 12:15, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Andrew Collins (author) and not plain old Andrew Collins (as mentioned by SA above), which is a disambiguation page. DreamGuy (talk) 15:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Andrew Collins (author). Not every character in a book needs an encyclopedia article. Are there reliable and independent sources with substantial discussion of this character, as there are, say for Professor Moriarty? Apparently not. Edison (talk) 19:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect per all above. -- MISTER ALCOHOL  TC 05:03, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


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