Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Igor Karkaroff

 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 keep. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 18:12, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Igor Karkaroff
Where does the minimum bar of notability lie for characters within the fictional universe of Harry Potter? At 529 google hits, does this figure merit inclusion on Wikipedia? Please discuss. --GRider\talk 19:25, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or keep. Kappa 20:02, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Plenty long enough to have been split into his own article already.  (Am I the only one weirded out by the template, by the way?) &mdash;Korath (Talk) 20:30, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable character in one of the most notable pieces of fiction ever. Xezbeth  20:36, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable character, not to mention that he's not widely known by his first name.  A better search would be Karkaroff Harry Potter, which receives 7,430 hits.  ral315 20:41, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable charecter from GOF. kaal 21:11, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Am I the only one scared that fictional characters such as this are of so much more interest than real people? Pointless vote to merge since I'm sure I'm in the minority. Average Earthman 21:26, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Red herring. Articles aren't of "more" or "less" interest than others; each is judged on its own merits. If there's enough to write to make an interesting article, there'll be an article. If not, it'll eventually get merged back into some larger list page. But having it here doesn't harm anything. It doesn't somehow lessen all of the other articles to have this one here.
 * I don't think you are familiar with general Vfder's thinking. Kappa 08:53, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it's not a red herring - basically, a fictional character only has their appearence in the work of fiction - they do not exist outside of it, while real people exist in a wide range of ways. A secondary character who appears to have had their entire appearance in the work isn't expandable. Average Earthman 20:21, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Same idea as Ted Tonks. grendel|khan 21:30, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
 * Merge. Karkaroff is only a secondary character in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.  Based on the comments of He-Who-Must-Not-Be Named we are unlikely to see any more of Karkaroff either. --Allen3 22:08, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 23:39, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge it. Wyss 02:06, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - David Gerard 17:42, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. —Markaci 2005-03-14 T 09:36 Z
 * Keep -- Jmabel | Talk 08:43, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I advocate merging many of the HP articles, but this is not one of those. It contains enough information to merit its own article, unlike many other characters which are indeed of little importance. Solver 22:36, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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