Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cheng Kun

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was merge/redirect. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:09, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Cheng Kun
Poorly written nonsensical non-article about a non-entity from a minor work of fiction. Attempts to merge and redirect with the poorly written article on the book have been reverted. There are a few other characters from the book that have similar articles. Wikipedia doesn't need more contextless fan drivel; its lousy articles are rampant enough. -R. fiend 22:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, and expand. Kappa 23:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect unless expanded. If other users are being unreasonable about this, try dispute resolution. Meelar (talk) 00:11, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not unreasonable to keep an article separate while it's being worked on. Kappa 02:41, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect as above. --bainer 01:08, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Yaohua2000 02:13, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
 * Comment: It seems that no attempt was made to merge, the in-progress article was simply redirected. Kappa 02:49, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up. I suspect the original author's first language was not English, and plenty of other articles have started off as pretty badly-written ESL stubs.  I'd help clean it up and complete it more than I already have, but I've never read the book (or seen the movie), so I really can't. --Jemiller226 02:56, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect as per Meelar. Vegaswikian 06:15, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Has in-links, so is refered to elsewhere; has potetnial for expansion; needs a tidy-up and perhaps some more context: Keep --Simon Cursitor 07:08, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. Megan1967 07:30, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge imho. Radiant_* 08:10, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Characters with no cultural impact outside of a series don't need separate articles, particularly when both the articles for the character and the novel are short. This can be merged, and I doubt the merged article will get overlong unless someone starts waffling. Average Earthman 09:07, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or, better still, delete (what's there to merge, really?). I myself have read the above book, and while it is not a minor work of fiction (it is a major wuxia novel), I won't myself include this silly minor character into Wikipedia's already long list of fan drivel. Even if R Fiend doesn't set this up for deletion, I would have done so.  See also the meaningless entry called Ice and Fire Island. There're tons more - keep cool. Mandel 03:10, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.