Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rudolph van Richten (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 redirect to List of Ravenloft characters. Restoring redirect decided in previous AfD, and ECP-salting to prevent another anonymous restoration. Since a merge was done, we should keep the history. RL0919 (talk) 17:08, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Rudolph van Richten
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The article is written from an in-universe perspective, consists solely of a plot summary and has no secondary or tetriary sources. The previous AfD closed as merge, but the article was later restored by user:2601:D:B480:ED2:30ED:FD01:8965:1176 with the explanation "going to work on this one a bit". However, no significant changes were made to the page after the restoration. Not a very active user (talk) 16:55, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
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 * Restore Merge This article is merely a collection of plot-related information that has not been improved since its recreation. Of course, the merged content should be pruned, as it is far too long in its current state. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 17:32, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep or restore previous merge. BOZ (talk) 21:09, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt since merge and redirect wasn't good enough. Fictional character that fails WP:NFICTION. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:07, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete & Restore Redirect - As the article has undergone no major revisions, and there still are no reliable secondary sources discussing the character in any meaningful way to allow it to pass the WP:GNG, there is no reason for the previous AFD's consensus to have been ignored and reverted. Deletion and restoration of the redirect is the best solution to keep this from happening again.  Rorshacma (talk) 16:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Restore redirect. Content was merged in 2011. Page history must be technically kept to preserve attribution. (not watching, please )  czar  03:15, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. As usual, deletion of information which can be merged elsewhere benefits nobody. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:59, 16 December 2019 (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.