Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colbert portrait


 * 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   merge to Stephen Colbert. (non-admin closure) Foxy Loxy  Pounce! 01:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Colbert portrait

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I originally prodded the page because there is nothing that says that these paintings of Stephen Colbert are in anyway notable for encyclopedic inclusion. The person who removed the prod tag stated that there were multiple independent sources (the four external links) and that there's a merge discussion going on. An IP address put a merge tag on the page after I put the prod there, and no discussion was started anywhere to concern merging the article. As far as I know, there is nothing to say that these paintings are notable and independent of the man they are of. If anything, this article should be deleted, as I do not see any use of merging it to Stephen Colbert.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 15:49, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge &mdash; This was a gag used in a couple episodes of the Colbert Report. It merits a couple of sentences in there at a maximum, but certainly not its own article.  -- Cyde Weys  15:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 *  Allow the merge discussion to continue  As I said when removing the prod, there's some notability to it, but probably not enough to support an actual article. Let the merge discussion happen. If nothing comes of it, then fine, bring this back here. Umbralcorax (talk) 16:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * What merge discussion? There is no merge discussion currently ongoing, so it must be dealt with here.  Remember that AFD is capable of closing with a result of Merge.  Let's handle this right here, right now, not in some hypothetical merge discussion elsewhere.  -- Cyde Weys  16:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, vote modified accordingly. Umbralcorax (talk) 17:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge Not really notable or needing an article on its own. Will be better off in the context of the Colbert article. -- Narson ~  Talk  • 17:15, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge. Do I really need to defend this? It clearly should be merge with Stephen Colbert. -- Amwestover (talk|contrib) 17:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * merge per WP:BEFORE. Reasonable search term for someone who's seen it in the national gallery, etc. Neier (talk) 11:10, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge per WP:BEFORE. Reasonable search term, per Neier. -- MISTER ALCOHOL  TC 05:09, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


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