Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stan Smith (American Dad!)


 * 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 procedural keep. This is one of several nominations made by an editor who has been previously cautioned about opening merge proposals before making AfDs for character pages. (26 nominations in all.) This is something that falls under the banner of cleanup rather than outright deletion, so this is going to be best handled by a merge discussion at Talk:List_of_American_Dad!_characters. This is going to be a lump close, so this same message will also appear on the other pages. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  12:07, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Stan Smith (American Dad!)

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No real-world coverage. Almost everything is unsourced. WP:FANCRUFT. DJ Autagirl (talk) 18:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete no independent notability separate from American Dad!, lack of independent coverage, certainly no significant coverage. There is no specific guideline for fictional characters, so the WP:GNG applies. There may be some collateral help from WP:NBOOK which has a section on derivative articles which says: While a book may be notable, it is not normally advisable to have a separate article on a character or thing from the book, and it is often the case that despite the book being manifestly notable, a derivative article from it is not. Exceptions do exist, especially in the case of very famous books. For example, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" clearly warrants a 'subarticle' on its protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge.  What I get mostly on Stan Smith are youtube, imdb and other such directories, some blogging, episode out-takes, and tennis shoe advertisements. The only in-depth was ‘American Dad’ Episodes That Show The Evolution Of Stan Smith] from uproxx, although its coverage of Stan Smith is not separate from American Dad!. Much of this Wikipedia article is already covered at American Dad! and List of American Dad! characters. --Bejnar (talk) 06:19, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This is one of a mass of nominations opened by this editor after being specifically warned that they needed to open merge requests before opening an AfD. I see no evidence that they've even remotely looked into doing this, so I'm leaning towards making this a procedural close due to a clear lack of WP:BEFORE. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


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