Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lock, Shock, and Barrel


 * 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   merge to List of characters in The Nightmare Before Christmas.  MBisanz  talk 02:11, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Lock, Shock, and Barrel

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Non-notable characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas. A basic Google search for "Lock, Shock, and Barrel"  mostly just returns things like fan artwork, fan fiction, merchandise, and plot summaries of TNBC. A Google News search returns only two results, both  of which contain only trivial mentions of these characters. A Google Books search returns only trivial mentions in larger works, mostly on subject such as TNBC and Tim Burton. As such, no reliable, published sources have been found, and this article fails the general Notability guideline, as well as the proposed Notability guideline for fiction. Unscented (talk) 14:32, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge to List of characters in The Nightmare Before Christmas, and do major cleanup and condensing. I think the question mostly hingest on the fact that they appeared in the Kingdom Hearts video game, and whether or not that makes them more deserving of their own article; but after looking at that section in this article and seeing that it's mostly useless plot summary, I think the whole thing could be condensed to a single sentence (along the lines of "they have also appeared in the Kingdom Hearts video game series" or whatever) at the end of the usual description they would get in the List of... article. &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 15:55, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. I am glad that they are only fictional! This article shows some of the problems with articles about fictional creations.  The author, although a good writer, has watched a cartoon movie and projected human characteristics on the made-up characters. A lot of WP:Original research in other words. Northwestgnome (talk) 15:58, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with Northwestgnome's comments about the article's problems; I have modified my "merge" vote to express that the article also needs a lot of cleanup, and shouldn't just be copy-and-pasted into the list. &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 16:01, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge with the list of characters, per notability. flaminglawyerc 16:48, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions.   -- the wub  "?!"  21:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge, and this shouldn't have been brought here. (That is, merge, with preservation of a reasonable mount of the content.) This is a single show, and the material will fir just fine in the main article.   DGG (talk) 02:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge as the character do seem notable for the sake of the film, but not notable enough to have their own article. – Dream out loud (talk) 18:50, 29 December 2008 (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.