Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syme (Nineteen Eighty-Four)


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The result was MERGE and REDIRECT. postdlf (talk) 14:44, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Syme (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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I believe this article violates WP:BKD. Compare searches of 'syme 1984' with winston, julia, o'brien, etc. Syme is way behind them. He's only appeared three times (at lunch, when he vapourised, and O'Brien's mention) in the novel and is not a major character. The analysis in the article, the only thing which can prove its subject's notability, is unreferenced and may be a borderline case of WP:POV.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 09:12, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. Adequately covered at Nineteen Eighty-Four. MLA (talk) 11:01, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Doggone it, I liked Syme, the loyal Oceanian government employee who talked just a little bit too much, but he truly was a minor character in the novel. Only a weak delete, simply because articles about things like books, mathematics, and events that happened in years that don't begin with "2" are in short supply around here, while those about athletes and people running for office are fiercely defended.  We do have to resist the trend to dumb down Wikipedia back to its more illiterate days.  Mandsford 16:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge and leave as redirect --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:06, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Merge per RAN. I note that of the listed Secondary Characters in that article, he's the only one with his name bluelinked. This should be pretty straightforward--I don't see any reason this needs to run the full 7 days unless someone objects to such a merge. Jclemens (talk) 00:16, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per RAN and Jclemens. Notable enough in the novel to have at least some of this content merged into the Secondary characters section (without causing undue weight) but not enough for his own article. MeekSaffron (talk) 19:46, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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