Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blart


 * 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   delete. SarahStierch (talk) 18:27, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Blart (character)
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Non-notable fictional characters. No independent reliable sources establish that any of these characters are notable separately from the fiction in which they appear. Fails WP:GNG. Also fails WP:PLOT since they amount to plot descriptions of the character's actions within the fiction and WP:FICT for failing to include any discussion of the characters from an out-of-universe perspective. Articles have been tagged for references and other issues for anywhere from four to seven years but the articles can't be improved because the sources simply don't exist. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 20:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:08, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete all. Doing searches on The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, and the BBC results in almost no hits at all.  In desperation, I also tried a few U.S. papers, such as The New York Times, and I still got almost nothing.  Unless I seriously misspelled the author's name, I'm thinking these books really aren't very popular.  The characters could be redirected or merged to the novels (or a list of characters created), but I'm just not seeing any notability at all here. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:01, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete all. The existing one-paragraph character entries in the book article is sufficient. If someone wants to expand into long detail see Wikia for fan sites. If Blart has crossed over into mainstream culture in some way like the similar Bart Simpson it would be different but not seeing sources to support that case for Blart. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:44, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge them all into a single Blart (characters). We seem to have an article on each of a series of novels.  I suspect that they and my proposed characters article might all conveniently merged into a single Blart (the novel series).  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:54, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
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