Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Town bully


 * 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   delete. The comment by encapsulates the consensus.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 15:09, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Town bully

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Original research, a combination of plausible and dubious. Unreferenced since 2009 Staszek Lem (talk) 19:53, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - Agree with nom. First sniff makes it seem ORish. NickCT (talk) 20:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Userfy - I think this could be developed. There are so many references to people being the town bully in film or reality and references to stock characters in the same article, etc, but nothing to support GNG for it be its own article  —Мандичка YO 😜 23:35, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are many on-topic sources available by Google search.  The search "town bully murdered movie" is suggested automatically to me, and yields multiple high-quality sources on In Broad Daylight / Ken McElroy case of 1981.  I added a bit to the article, including some references and some text from the Wikipedia Ken McElroy article.  I oppose "userfy"ing because only mainspace articles attract other editors, and this simply is a notable topic. -- do  ncr  am  14:16, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There are many word and phrase we all know what they mean and may be found by google search in thousands hits, but we can write nothing more than a dictionary definition: country hick, copper weight, to name two from very different areas. (And no, "copper weight" is not a random combination; it is an important parameter in PCB manufacturing, and I can easily write a big article about it, similar in structure to the one we are discussing: a definition plus a bunch of examples). Staszek Lem (talk) 17:10, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: Complete OR. If someone wants to write an article using good sources and discussing the subject -- as opposed to refs where the term is name-dropped -- great, but this isn't it.  Nha Trang  Allons! 16:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. The stock character part is original research, and the real-life example is little more than a tacked-on footnote.  It's a common enough phrase, and one could probably identify its use in many reliable source to describe individual characters, but to extrapolate from that to a generalized concept would be synthesis. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:09, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:49, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:49, 20 May 2015 (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.