Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in War and Peace


 * 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 keep. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

List of characters in War and Peace
Fanwank. No sources at all, notability of these characters is not established. --CF90 (talk) 17:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. A great many of the characters in that book are actual (and very notable) historical figures, so it's helpful to have a page that lists the characters with wikilinks to their real-life counterparts where applicable. The only source necessary in that page would be War and Peace. Rennell435 (talk) 15:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. Patently ludicrous nomination to anyone who looks here. Potential merge to main article, but I think that the list of characters is so large that it would make the article on the book unwieldy. Perhaps needs further elaboration with brief description of the characters currently without their own page. Agree with the above comment that many characters are very notable. Fenix down (talk) 16:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep This is one of the world's major literary works, which will necessarily have a rather long main article, and is a novel  noted in particular for its extremely large number of significant and also background characters, both imagined and historical. that there needs to be a RW/fiction comparison for many of the characters, including some of the most important, makes such an article particularly necessary. As for merging, it should rather be expanded--this page should be enough to give some idea of the role of every one of these characters, even if they have additional articles; for the ones that need comparison, I think a paragraph would be better than a sentence.  I got interested in fictional topics here three years ago when an article on one of the principal characters in this novel was challenged, to my great amazement. I see that some people take an even more extreme position now,  in challenging entire combination articles on the novel. I recognize that those editors who thought similarly to me were not making as much progress as we hoped, but  I had not thought we were actually going backwards.    DGG ( talk ) 20:10, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'll volunteer to start off the expansion. Rennell435 (talk) 00:25, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep, mainly per DGG. The blue links on the list say everything about its appropriateness and notability. Also, there is no WP:NOT-based (or any other policy-based) rationale in this AfD. -- Cycl o pia talk  00:21, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


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