Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Librarian characters


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The result was keep. ✗ plicit  23:50, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

List of The Librarian characters

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List of characters of a relatively obscure television show/tv movie spinoff. To the best of my knowledge there is no independent coverage of the grouping, and this is reflect in the list itself which reads as WP:FANCRUFT. BilledMammal (talk) 23:16, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. BilledMammal (talk) 23:16, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 00:39, 11 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep Four-season television show on a major cable network with a franchise article hardly suggests "obscure". A common and fine split-off of a sci-fi adventure series; could use sources, but deletion is not a solution here.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 04:33, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Librarian (franchise). List article is made up of plot only and has no in-depth sources available to demonstrate real-world notability. – DarkGlow • 07:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep This show is not "obscure". One of the three TV movies won a Saturn Award, and those TV movies were nominated for Emmys and a Writers Guild Award, this was followed by a four-season television show, with books and comics as well. I know it was a "family friendly" show which may not be to the taste of the proposer, but it was by no means obscure, and it a big show internationally, including getting Golden Maple nominations. Needs a few more sources, that's all Damiantgordon (talk) 10:11, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep As always, as in every single character list at AFD since the very beginning, it is a valid spin-off article.  D r e a m Focus  15:00, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Four season show AND a three movie trilogy with some major actors, so definitely not an obscure show.Deathlibrarian (talk) 23:32, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I used that phrase in error, but I should be clear that this is nominating the deletion of a list of characters, rather than the article on the subject itself. This list is a group that hasn't been discussed collectively by reliable sources, was at the time of nomination entirely unsourced fancruft, and the article itself is not so long that a more concise list of characters, based on reliable secondary sources rather than fancruft, would not be appropriate there (the parent article is less than a thousand words long, well below our size limit). I brought it here rather than proposed a merger, because there was no content in the list that would be suitable for merger. BilledMammal (talk) 02:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, valid spinoff.Jackattack1597 (talk) 19:52, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. This book has some character analysis of the female characters from the franchise. In addition to the films and movies, there are also books featuring the characters, (such as this graphic novel) I get the sense that a WP:BEFORE search was not properly done with this nomination. I'm not convinced that there aren't sources out there in reviews of the various films, tv series, books, etc. on the characters to not build a valid spin off article.4meter4 (talk) 21:11, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


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