Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in Whiz kid


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The result was   delete. Black Kite (t) (c) 00:55, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

List of characters in Whiz kid

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Moved (back) to: Whiz kid 
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I thought this might be a stock character or stereotype in a comic series. Actually it is not, and is just a misspelling of Whizz Kid. Si Trew (talk) 11:20, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * So why Whizz kid is redirecting here? Bulwersator (talk) 11:21, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Do not keep under this name. At a bare minimum, this article is mistitled. This article is a list of characters from various media who could be described as "whiz kids", not a list of characters in a book/movie/television program titled Whiz Kid. Maybe this should be moved, maybe it should be deleted, but it shouldn't stay under this name. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:05, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. Although the page was moved, I don't think it's sufficiently sourced to warrant keeping. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:41, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep; the nom makes no sense to me. What is a "Whizz kid" and how is it different than a "Whiz" kid? The page has been moved back to its old title of Whiz kid and a good-faith but erroneous attempt to convert it to a disambig page has been reverted. This is a legitimate article about a recognized type of stock character, and I see no reason for deletion.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:37, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete/re-write; I have previously stated my reasons on the article's talk page -- nagualdesign (talk) 16:21, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: I never said it was a well-written article; but, AFAIK, "poorly written" is not a valid reason for deleting an article. The remedy is to rewrite it, not delete it.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:44, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:46, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
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 * This is not TV tropes.; this article should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.205.169.211 (talk) 15:46, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 08:19, 30 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete This is some strange hybrid of an unmanagable and unnecessary list masquerading and an article about a character type. As a list, it might barely squeak by if it were cut down to only those characters that actually have RS sourcing that they are whiz kids, but that will never happen.  As an article, it is a dicdef plus a bunch of OR.  I hoped to find a media-studies scholarly article about the whiz kid archetype somewhere, but I couldn't.  So, delete. gnfnrf (talk) 21:18, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:RS and WP:OR.  Rich wales (talk · contribs) 03:39, 6 August 2011 (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.