Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Company (Prison Break)


 * 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 Prison Break. History is available if there is content that anyone wants to merge. RL0919 (talk) 14:04, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

The Company (Prison Break)

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One big plot summary of the show (WP:NOTPLOT), WP:REDUNDANT to Prison Break. – sgeureka t•c 18:23, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. – sgeureka t•c 18:23, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Hyperbolick (talk) 18:34, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Redirect and merge (see below) - The Company plays an important role as the primary antagonist in the series. IMDB makes reference to it in the first clause of its summary of the show: "Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row...". Prison_Break also summarizes this well, particularly the series climaxing in the fourth season with bringing The Company down. In light of its importance to the series, this article seems more akin to a character biography (of which we have loads) than anything else. WP:REDUNDANT doesn't really cover this situation, and WP:NOTPLOT suggests to me improvement rather than deletion.--Chaser (talk) 15:30, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay then, the WP:CONTENTFORK and WP:NOPAGE guidelines describe my argument better than REDUNDANT. Both of them explain why this AfDed article is unneccessary even if real-world notability was established (which it is not, but that's beside the point for this AfD). – sgeureka t•c 13:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I think those pages undercut my argument sufficiently to change it. In particular, WP:WHYN's discussion of sourcing is persuasive. I can find sources mentioning the company, but none that discuss it. That said, both WP:REDUNDANTFORK and WP:WHYN seem to support merging rather than deleting. Given that content may have been traded back and forth without attribution, that's probably better. So I'd favor simply redirecting now and notification on Talk:Prison Break so that content contributors can decide what to merge. I concede a standalone article is overkill. I considered suggesting exporting to Wikia (now Fandom), but I cannot find anything about whether that is (still) possible.--Chaser (talk) 13:28, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - The topic doesn't establish notability. TTN (talk) 12:30, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Prison Break. ミラP 22:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   12:11, 7 January 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 13:36, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Prison Break where the topic is already covered. Aoba47 (talk) 22:40, 15 January 2020 (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.