Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of minor characters on My Name Is Earl


 * 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. Clearly no consensus to delete here - although you can still discuss for rename the article if necessary on the talk page (or any merging) JForget  21:50, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

List of minor characters on My Name Is Earl

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We have a list of characters in My Name Is Earl. The list there is, in some cases more organised than this one. Main characters don't have their own article because there was much effort to keep the information organised. It doesn't make sense to have a separate article for minor characters giving them undie weight (and which is also unreferenced). Magioladitis (talk) 17:40, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — Cliff smith  talk  03:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or perhaps merge. This list is more extensive--covering more characters, in somewhat more appropriate detail. The point is keeping the verifiable information, not how we divide it up. If the articles on the main characters areto remain deleted, their sections in the character list in the main article need to be considerably expanded. DGG (talk) 19:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * A solution would be to create a new article called List of characters on My Name Is Earl but some characters in the list above are not really worth to mention. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:13, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Notability is not inherited. If there's no secondary sources covering these characters, then they have no place on Wikipedia, either as separate articles or as part of a character list. WesleyDodds (talk) 07:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Rename as a "List of characters..." article and have a listing of all the characters on the show. This seems like a better way to use the article. Tavix | Talk  04:24, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:15, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Strong keep per DGG. Lists like this are the comprimises sought in WP:FICT. Why didn't nominator simply attempt to merge this article first, or discuss his concerns per WP:BEFORE and WP:PRESERVE? Ikip (talk) 00:50, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm with Tavix. This is a mess because someone's decided to put the main characters in the show's article and separate out the minor ones. What we actually need to do is have two pages: one article about the show, and one list of all the characters.  Which is, not incidentally, the fairly well-established consensus about how Wikipedia treats fictional characters who don't pass the GNG in their own right.  So rename to List of characters on My Name Is Earl, and then merge the character list from My Name is Earl to this.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  01:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep consistent with treatment of other series. This is a reasonable breakout-for-length page regardless of how the main characters end up being treated. JJL (talk) 01:08, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * keep notable show, list is long enough to warrant its own... well... list... a merge of any kind would be more clumsy.--Paul McDonald (talk) 04:31, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable, not really sourced or anything. 72.88.53.149 (talk) 06:47, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Do Not Delete per DGG. Content significant within the context of the show. --Cybercobra (talk) 20:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Since I ve been watching the show I can assure you that many of the characters described had some short appreances, usually without telling a line. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:20, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is much more preferable than a bunch of articles on these characters. Niteshift36 (talk) 00:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * We are not discussing to split! We are discussing if the information provived in the main article is enough and the information in this article is worth to keep. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:57, 15 August 2009 (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.