Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gil Hamilton


 * 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   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:49, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Gil Hamilton

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This character does not establish notability independent of Known Space through the inclusion of real world information from reliable, third party sources. Most of the information is made up of original research and unnecessary plot details. There is no current assertion for future improvement of the article, so extended coverage is unnecessary. TTN (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect appears in multiple Known Space stories. - Mgm|(talk) 00:09, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep if the character appears in multiple stories (I haven't read any of the relevant ones), which should the article be merged to? Merging every important character to Known Space would clearly be insane due to the size and scope of the series.  Similarly, a Characters of Known Space article would become extremely large very quickly.  I believe consensus in the past has usually been that if a character appears in multiple works of a large series they should have an independent article.  It is the only logical solution in this case. JulesH (talk) 00:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to Characters of Known Space. Edward321 (talk) 03:22, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge. No possible reason to remove entirely, and none is asserted in the nomination. DGG (talk) 05:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Known Space. Ryan 4314   (talk) 06:32, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment alot of the Gil stories are in the Flatlander (short story collection) anthology. 76.66.195.159 (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per DGG and JulesH. No clear reason for deletion, no apparent attempt by nom to follow WP:BEFORE per his comments above Hobit (talk) 15:07, 14 December 2008 (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.