Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethan Black (Home and Away)

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The result was delete. (X! · talk) · @980 · 22:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ethan Black (Home and Away)[edit]

Unsourced, non-notable fictional character bio; was mentioned in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugo Austin which closed wo/prejudice to opening more controlled AFD's. So for 7 days of discussion of this ludicrous bit of dreck, I offer Ethan Black. Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC) nb: delete![reply]

As the person who closed the behemoth that was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugo Austin I encourage you to nominate them in clusters, unless your goal is to be pointy. That AFD was explicitly closed so that meaningful discussion could be had about the characters and so that it could be determined if there are any worth keeping. Undoubtably, I suspect that most of them are deletable, but there are probably a handful that are significant enough to warrant keeping.---Balloonman ^{NO! I'm Spartacus!} 02:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

others; see User talk:Jack Merridew#The Hugo Deletions where this was discussed. Cluster-noms often fail, so I avoid them. I hear there's talk about a list approach; good, because the ludicrous articles I've looked at gotta go. Cheers, Jack Merridew 05:57, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- Jack Merridew 11:50, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 11:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 11:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to an appropriate character list. Edward321 (talk) 13:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, and/or merge. As with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Nash, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joey Rainbow, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lynn Davenport etc., the character can be treated to the extent necessary in the parent article or an article collecting thumbnail sketches of its characters. Footnote 9 of WP:FAILN seems roughly on-point: "articles on minor characters in a work of fiction may be merged into a 'list of minor characters in ...'" - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 14:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a fictional character which is not notable independent of the actors or show itself. I'm okay with the name being redirected to the show article or an appropriate list but I think the article should be deleted. Googling "Ethan Black" and "Home and Away" gets only 48 distinct (of 225 total) ghits, most (all?) of which are to forums and fan pages. [1] I don't think Google is solely an indicator of notability but for an award winning and popular TV show that is currently airing, I would expect to see much more if this were a notable character. Due to the lack of reliable sources about this character, the article is also unverified and unverifiable and not maintainable. Sarah 02:37, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and merge to character list - non-notable. Orderinchaos 03:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my nomination statement at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugo Austin Matthewedwards : Chat 16:15, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.