Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in Catch-22


 * 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 of the debate was Keep. There are more Keeps than Merges, and these are just votes not to Delete. Whether an article needs to be kept or merge doesn't require an AfD to decide. Deathphoenix 13:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

List of characters in Catch-22
This page has gotten out of sync with the list of characters already on Catch-22. There are also dozens of separate articles for characters from the book including minor characters. Someone obviously likes the book quite a lot and did a bunch of work on those articles but I think they should be merged. While I understand some books like LOTR have lots of separate articles for their characters, those situations are somewhat special and I don't think Catch-22 is significant enough these days to warrant that unusual treatment. Phr 04:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep and merge several minor characters into it (like Nately's Whore's Kid Sister and Maid with the lime-colored panties) per WP:FICT. Nifboy 04:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete need not exist in duplicate. Bobby1011 04:36, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems like a textbook case of merge (if needed) and delete. Turnstep 04:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment This is also partly a question of what to do with all the separate articles about the minor characters. Merging them to this "list" article is a reasonable option.  I don't have the energy to put up separate AfD's for all of them until there's been some discussion.  If merging them all is a popular choice then maybe I'll make putting up the AfD's into an exercise in bot programming. Phr 04:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You don't need AfD for that. Just be bold and start merging, leaving redirects in your wake. Nifboy 05:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't even think it's appropriate to leave a billion redirects. The list of the characters in the main article (with merged descriptions) is enough.  Phr 05:12, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge and clean up redundant redirects. psch  e  mp  |  talk  06:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge and cleanup per Pschemp.  OhNo itsJamie Talk 08:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  09:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * By "expand" do you mean merge in all those separate pages about individual characters and delete those? Phr 11:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Needless incomplete copy of information already in Catch-22. Weregerbil 16:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No merge is necessary as every item in the list is already in Catch-22. No information will be lost with a straight delete. Weregerbil 16:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep, and reduce the list on Catch-22 to cover just the major characters, leaving a link to this list. Confusing Manifestation 02:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep this and Merge some of the smaller character-related stubs into it. Also, be sure that you DO leave redirects in place, so that the chain of contribution is preserved. -Colin Kimbrell 04:39, 24 February 2006 (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.