Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of deceased characters in Prisoner

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:05, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of deceased characters in Prisoner[edit]

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This list is a bad idea. Apart from being arguably a non-notable subject, categorising fictional characters by whether they're 'alive' or 'dead' has been firmly rejected on many previous occasions: see Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 June 9#Category:Deceased fictional characters, Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 6#Category:Deceased fictional characters, Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 October 18#Category:Dead fictional characters. That should apply to lists as much as categories. Describing a fictional character as 'deceased' is pretty silly when you think about it. Robofish (talk) 16:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:34, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:34, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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If kept, it should be renamed to List of character deaths in Prisoner (TV series) or something like that, to clarify what this is really about. As the nom said, describing a character as "deceased" really doesn't make any sense out of context, at least when the death is depicted within the course of a narrative, because rewind a bit or watch an earlier episode and the character is alive. So a rename would clarify that this is really a list of deaths that occur during the course of the show. But for this to be kept, I think it should be shown that this information is specifically significant to an understanding of the show, because it's not a standard part of TV series coverage, unlike general character lists or episode lists. Fans and critics notably kept running body counts for The Sopranos, but I can't even find a separate list of deaths for that show. Why does this one merit one, apart from just an ordinary list of characters? postdlf (talk) 03:51, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:52, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Not easy to research and doesn't seem interesting, currently there is no evidence of notability, possibly WP:Indiscriminate. Unscintillating (talk) 00:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:49, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Wikipedia is not indiscriminate info or a complete exposition of all possible details. If there are notable characters on the show, give them an article, or put them into a single list. Shooterwalker (talk) 23:58, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- as a trivial compilation of original research. Reyk _YO! 09:44, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete in the absence of any answers to my questions above. postdlf (talk) 13:14, 18 March 2011 (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.