Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Barnfather


 * 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 Homicide: Life on the Street, where the character is already mentioned, without any prejudice against either expanding this section of the main article, adding more details, or creating a dedicated article on the minor characters as suggested below, or splitting this article back as a separate one once the character gains encyclopedic notability, which is at the moment, as the discussion demonstrates, not sufficient to keep a separate article.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:46, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

George Barnfather

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This biography of a minor television character is written in a completely in-universe style with no third-party sources to prove notability. A biography of this character of sufficient length and detail can be included in the main article on the series. There is no reason this character needs or deserves a separate article.  The Old Jacobite The '45  19:19, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:55, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:55, 27 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge to a list of other fictional characters from the same clearly notable television series, with no prejudice against an article split-out once individual notability for this character is demonstrated. Jclemens (talk) 02:55, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * There is no such article; all the cast members, both regular and recurring, are discussed in the main article. This should be deleted and redirected there. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  13:21, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support proposed merge. Why not create such an article, then? bd2412  T 22:27, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * There is no need for such an article. All of the cast is dealt with in the main article for the show.  Why create an article which is unnecessary? --- The Old Jacobite The '45  13:10, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The cast is listed, which is hardly the same as providing the level of information in these articles. bd2412  T 02:26, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * What level of information are you talking about? The level of information in these separate articles amounts to nothing more than a rehash of in-universe episode information.  And these are minor characters, by the way. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  14:57, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * We have many such articles - see Category:Lists of minor fictional characters. As for the "level of information", suppose a reader is indeed interested in this character? Should they have to read through the whole collection of episode pages to glean that information from the episodes where the character appears? bd2412  T 03:22, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge to main article; edit for length and detail to avoid inevitable repetition. Plutonium27 (talk)
 * Keep or merge into a List of Homicide characters article. Gamaliel (talk) 23:13, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Homicide: Life on the Street, this is not a major character I see no reason to merge this into the page. He is listed among the recurring characters so a redirect to that section seems appropriate. To support merging to a not yet created page listing a program's recurring characters seems premature but if someone was willing to start such a page I would support userfying this and similar pages to them. J04n(talk page) 10:36, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete no notability for this character.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:24, 4 April 2013 (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.