Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennie Malloy


 * 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 Unhappily Ever After. Any content of permanent value can be merged at editor discretion into the target article EdJohnston (talk) 04:32, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Jennie Malloy

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No significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. Fails WP:FICT. No refs. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 21:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * background : character in Unhappily Ever After from 1995 to 1998.DGG (talk) 23:37, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge into a character list. This group of deletions is a little weird, because the article for the protagonist in the show Jack Malloy, does not seem to have ever existed. Possibly the eds. interested in this series have been working their way up to him. As for the subject of this article, there is information in  the main article about her, but it is insufficient. Information about her role in the plot is relevant, not just the sketch of her character type, which is all that is in the main article now. The Wikipedia coverage of fiction should not be only plot, but it certainly should include plot (the long standing dispute is about how much, but there certainly needs to be some even at the extreme viewpoint--I'd be prepared to say the content should mainly or at least substantially be about plot,  the most important element in fiction, but not everyone agrees. ), and for a series like this, often the best way of doing this briefly is though the characters the show focuses on. But I don't think there's any reason for a separate article. I point out that t he material here is best sourced from the work itself, though some of the generalisations should have a secondary source. A whole group of afds that should not have come here--and this comment goes for the ones above also. I see nobody even started a merge discussion on them, & I further ask the nom why he thinks the articles should not be redirected? There are many good ways of handlignthese articles, but deciding one chracter at a time at afd is not the way to find them.  DGG (talk) 23:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't disagree that redirect or merge would be a good solution. I just thought that since there is no clear policy on fictional characters and since the articles were about 6k each, that just redirect without discussion would not go over well.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 01:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Redirect back to Unhappily Ever After or keep. While there are no citations, that's only because nobody's put them there yet.  These articles were just created this week.  Its reasonable to assume that many reviews have been written about the show, and at least some of them include sketches of the main characters.  Redirect will allow regular editors of the main page to find sources for what's in the revision history and build up the main article first, then break out articles about the characters. Squidfryerchef (talk) 03:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:08, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:08, 8 November 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.