Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenni Vainio


 * 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   no consensus, defaulting to keep. Wizardman 17:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Jenni Vainio

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Article about a fictional character of a soap opera. It has no real world information. It fails guidelines for WP:SOAPS. I prodded the article and my prod was reverted as "minor edit" without any explanation. Magioladitis (talk) 16:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions.   —Magioladitis (talk) 21:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * NOTE - The nom is attempting to delete every character article of the popular Finnish TV show Salatut elämät. --Oakshade (talk) 03:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)--Oakshade (talk) 03:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Consensus has long since decided fictional character articles, including in soap operas, can be included. Major character in long running national soap opera. WikiProject Soap Operas (WP:SOAPS) is not a notability guideline, but a project improvement page and in no manner mandates article deletions.  If you feel the article should be improved, a wiki-improvement tag is more appropriate, not article deletion.--Oakshade (talk) 03:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Finland-related deletion discussions.
 * Comment The list of characters can be converted to something like the List of Family Affairs characters. Separate articles cannot be supported without any real world information. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless multiple reliable secondary sources can be found to demonstrate notability and to make the article verifiable. Jakew (talk) 19:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * keep or Merge or redirect, depending on the importance of the character, but since a character might be a search term, the one thing that should not be done is delete. Spin out for major characters is still acceptable-- WP:SOAPS is only a project. I would like to see evidence first that someone with access to Finnish language sources has at least looked for them. DGG (talk) 00:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per my previous comment. Eusebeus (talk) 13:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, there is no policy against articles about fictional characters from soap operas. I don't know why the nominator thinks mentioning that Anu Palevaara portrays this character is not real world information. WP:SOAPS is a guideline for one particular WikiProject, it doesn't dictate policy for the whole site. --Pixelface (talk) 15:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment You can't build a whole article about a fictional charactered standing only in one line which indicated the actor's name and the years of appearance (unreferenced). We certainly can make a better list of characters with short descriptions but do we really must have 6 different articles? Is each of these characters notable on its own? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:17, 11 May 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.