Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Desperate Housewives characters


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The result was keep. WjBscribe 00:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Desperate Housewives characters

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List of desperate housewives characters. All the major characters have there own article already this is just a list of minor characters. When I saw minor I mean really minor, the newspaper boy who was in 2 episodes is listed. Article violates WP:Plot and WP:OR. If there was any need to have these chacters list they could be listed in the episode articles since there is an article for every Desperate Housewives episode. Ridernyc 21:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC) Ridernyc 21:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:SYN. Stifle (talk) 22:56, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Most of the list deals with family members of the major characters that are not significant enough to rate their own articles. The example you cited only comes from its tenth section which is named "Minor characters" and could get deleted without deleting the entire article!Dimadick 07:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The imjportant family memebers already ahve their own pages, the rest seem to only have tiny one or 2 sentence descriptions. Page fails WP:Plot. Ridernyc 15:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep This seems to qualify under WP:LIST guidelines, and as long as these characters are black-linked, it seems well within guidelines to have this list. It is certainly better than this.  I see nothing out of line with a list of characters from a show, however, as long as the article is not used as a link-farm to individual characters with little independent notability.  --Jayron32| talk | contribs  06:55, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep/Trim. Like I said here, I think a character list is useful and worthy of inclusion, but as it stands now it's a little too long and in-depth--I'd say cut out the very minor characters and remove the long descriptions some of them have, instead cross-linking to appropriate episodes where readers can find the information. It might be good if it was also converted to table format, to make the article more visually appealing and more likely to reach featured status. -- Crazy Legs  KC  12:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep Because these will need somewhere to go. • 97198  talk  17:26, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * main characters have there own pages, I'm sure the minor characters worth coverage are already covered in the eisode articles. 19:38, 3 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ridernyc (talk • contribs)
 * Those other character pages for deletion are hardly minor characters. • 97198  talk  07:48, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment Please see Articles for deletion/Dylan Mayfair including most of the supporting characters. Benjiboi 14:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is a popular mainstream network show so even if article is deleted is likely to be quickly replaced. Why not combine all the non-major characters and let the editors decide what, if any can be deleted or spun off. Benjiboi 14:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:FICT. This is how characters should be handled, instead of creating separate articles for everyone who wanders across the screen. The last section, though, should be purged. Otto4711 16:08, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * WP:Fict is a guideline and not a policy, it also happens to contradict several policies and is constantly being debated. Ridernyc 23:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep per CrazyLegsKC and Benjiboi. Flyer22 03:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


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