Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional psychopaths and sociopaths


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The result was delete.  Singu larity  08:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

List of fictional psychopaths and sociopaths

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Completely unsourced, highly subjective list that appears to be full of WP:OR and WP:NPOV violations. Collectonian (talk) 18:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Not really. It's for characters who exhibit behaviour consistent with psychopathy or sociopathy. Users need only go to the respective articles for said mental disorders to find out what the criteria for them are. Most if not all of the characters on the list also exhibit behaviour with them. --Illustrious One (talk) 19:32, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - unsourced and dubious assertions. Addhoc (talk) 19:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Certainly fails WP:OR.  Althought the characters in the article may be notable, their psychopathy/sociopathy by itself is not (notability is not inherited).  --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 20:06, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * For prior related discussions, see and . Uncle G (talk) 20:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Entirely original research, and also unmanagable; there are likely thousands of characters that could be characterized as such; and which ones would be open for interpretation.  No way to either limit the list or to verify its contents.  --Jayron32| talk | contribs  21:20, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I suppose. --Illustrious One (talk) 21:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I imagine that there are articles in journals, or even Psychology Today (if that still exists) that might have this type of diagnosis for fictional characters. This, however, is armchair psychiatry.  Mandsford (talk) 23:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete to broad an inclusion criteria. Doomed to original research. This list will also grow out of control with basically every fictional villain being added. Might as well just call it List Of Fictional Villains. Ridernyc (talk) 01:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, completely objective and originally-researched. • 97198   talk  11:24, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Blatent original research. Nuttah (talk) 12:03, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * You misspelled "blatant." --Illustrious One (talk) 14:05, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Diagnosis: "sociopathic misspelling" Mandsford (talk) 16:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Forgive me if I'm being dense Mandsford but I don't get it. --Illustrious One (talk) 18:28, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's a reference to Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Carlotta was the type of town where they spelled trouble "T-R-U-B-I-L"... and if you tried to correct them, they would kill you.  Mandsford (talk) 22:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)


 * And what are you insinuating? --Illustrious One (talk) 13:17, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm insinuating that I'm obviously a psychopath or a sociopath, what with all of my cryptic remarks. However, I may be a narcissist too.  I can't be sure, which may mean I have multiple personality disorder.  Or not.  Mandsford (talk) 15:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh I see, fascinating. Most sociopaths and psychopaths are also narcissists. I'm a narcissist myself but I don't think I'm a psychopath or a sociopath. I don't think I have Multiple Personality Disorder either. --Illustrious One (talk) 18:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. I recall that in the past the categories for 'fictional psychopaths' and 'fictional sociopaths' were deleted for the very same reasons.--CyberGhostface (talk) 15:36, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintainable, unencyclopedical. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 16:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions.   —User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 03:49, 26 December 2007 (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.