Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minor actors and actresses in Harry Potter 2nd Nomination


 * 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  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 06:59, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Minor actors and actresses in Harry Potter
This page is full of individuals each and every one of which fail WP:BIO. Most of them are extras, nearly all of them are children, and many of them have never appeared in a single film other than a Harry Potter movie. If this was not Harry Potter, we would not be having this discussion because these individuals would have been prodded and removed long ago. Just because a film series has a dedicated cult following does not mean that wikipedia policies and guidelines no longer apply. In the first debate, virtually every keep vote was based on the fact that it is better to have one central page for every actor rather than individual stubs, but this argument is invalid because it presumes that the individual stubs would belong on wikipedia in the first place, which they do not based on long-standing notability guidelines. Indrian 17:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete As per nom (it seems like there are lots of these "minor character" articles popping up for lots of other movies, shows, anime, video games, etc). 99DBSIMLR 17:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Elfin341 19:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Too much Harry Potter cruft... Axem Titanium 20:32, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, I tried it the last time unsuccessfully. Let me just repeat my reasoning: the featured list List of Harry Potter films cast members has all this information, but in a much more accessible form: a table. This is a listing of prose which was taken from IMDb and can still be found there. If there is anybody who is slightly more notable than just appearing in the series, we can go make a stub for them. However, none of these people have done anything else and thus fail WP:BIO. They have been covered at the FL, and taht seems like enough for me. --Fbv65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 22:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Just a thought, there are a whole bunch of pages that link to it; would it be wiser to have a bot or somebody on AWB go through them and relink them to the above list, or just to redirect this page to the FL? --Fbv65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 23:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Cast a deletion spell on it. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, we don't need info on every actor in the Harry Potter movies. Also, per the above user, we've already got a list of the cast members, we don't need another (especially not one that's just been copied from IMDb). Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 22:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per all of the above. —dustmite 22:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all the above. Carlossuarez46 00:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep given the strong interest in all things HP (though I can't really disagree with what's been written above). JJL 03:43, 24 May 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.