Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Robert A. Heinlein characters


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The result was rename. the wub "?!"  16:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

List of Robert A. Heinlein characters

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This unencyclopedic list has been tagged for cleanup for months. It is full of redlinks, and this is because of its central problem: it does not have inclusion criteria, other than being a character created or written about by Heinlein. Notable Heinlein characters might be an encyclopedic topic, so I would not be opposed to drastically cutting back, and renaming. Charlie - talk to me - what I've done 07:36, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Rename to List of notable Robert A. Heinlein characters and cut down to only those that have either articles or entire sections within the article on the book they appear in. Heinlein's characters are an important subject and this list provides a useful navigational resource, but only if it is restricted to characters that we actually have discussions about. JulesH 07:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep & Rename as per JulesH. Would seem useful for navigation - we simply need to put some advisory text on the header not to add redlinked characters. Pedro | Chat  08:27, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, rename and trim per above. It needs to go on a diet. It's such a pity somebody did all that work. Bearian 18:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Neutral I don't see why people can't go directly to articles about the specific work that the character appears in, but I would keep if somebody can find thematic "meta" character studies of his works. Wl219 12:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


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