Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Professor Frink

Keep Cletus Spuckler. And the rest (except perhaps Radioactive Man), but especially Cletus.

It makes sense to merge when an article meets this criteria from your deletion policy: "Articles that are short and unlikely to be expanded could be merged into larger articles or lists." That avoids chasing multiple links while researching. Conversely, too much merging makes the major article long and unwieldy, and forces the reader to wade through excessive material extraneous to whatever he or she seeks.

Cletus has been a recurring character since Season Five, and (as the article's final paragraph noted), "He is named the 7th (out of 25) of IGN's Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral Characters." The article section, Cletus Spuckler, is an amusing commentary on celebrities who give their children unusual names, and is very likely to be expanded as the family grows every time we see them. The length of the article makes it likely to clutter up the List of recurring characters in The Simpsons article, which currently includes 67 characters and 169 footnotes.

I agree it could be referenced better, but it does not meet deletion criteria for "Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources . . ." and "Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed". It may have errors, but I haven't found any, and the solution for that is editing. --Dogger55 (talk) 20:18, 4 August 2010 (UTC)