Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deacon (comics)

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The result was merge to List of Marvel Comics characters: D. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:39, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deacon (comics)[edit]

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Topic fails WP:GNG. There appear to be no noteworthy reliable sources discussing the character in a real world context. TTN (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Comics and animation. TTN (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Appears to be a very minor fictional character - according to a Marvel wiki, he only appeared in a small number of issues, and I cannot find any substantial coverage on the character in reliable, secondary sources. Note that this character is completely unrelated to Deacon Frost, a somewhat more notable character, who is usually the result of searching for any information on a Marvel character with the name of "Deacon". I see that a WP:PROD was declined a couple years back with the suggestion of a merge, but I disagree with this - the character is very minor, there is no actual sourced material here outside of primary-sourced plot summaries, and the various Marvel character lists should not just be a dumping ground for completely non-notable characters about which there has never been any kind of reliably sourced discussion. Rorshacma (talk) 18:04, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of Marvel Comics characters: D per WP:ATD and WP:PRESERVE. BOZ (talk) 03:26, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect per BOZ. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:49, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect - Per the comments above, not sufficiently notable for a standalone article. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 13:08, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete When incoming links from templates are removed, this article only has 6 incoming links from non-list articles. Of those, Orb (comics) Scarecrow (Marvel Comics), and Madcap (comics) actually use the same sentence for the name-drop: [the article subject] is later one of the villains considered by Blackout and the Deacon to help them assassinate the Ghost Rider. Blackout (Lilin) has a name drop in a list. Ghost Rider has a line entry for Deacon under Enemies, but nothing else. Only Caretaker (comics) provides any context for Deacon, and it's still pretty unsubstantial. The character seems to be completely non-noteworthy even in the Ghost Rider fiction, let alone in the Marvel Universe. I see no reason to retain any information about him. Argento Surfer (talk) 17:52, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and/or redirect per BOZ. Striving for compromise, and agree that this is otherwise short of what we need for WP:GNG. Can leave it to editors to summarize what is worth WP:PRESERVEing. Shooterwalker (talk) 00:41, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - near as I can tell, the character appeared in about five issues of one Ghost Rider series, and a couple of other spots - nine appearances in total. That's ... not a lot. Combined with a lack of secondary sources, I can't see this sticking around. Tony Fox (arf!) 00:51, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Selective Merge/Redirect to List of Marvel Comics characters: D per BOZ. Poor article with OR, and doesn't meet GNG (I don't have access to the magazines, but as far as I can tell they are plot summaries, which are insufficient to count towards SIGCOV). But I suppose as there's a fine merging target, WP:PRESERVE probably apply, but we would have to be cautious in that, as the article's OR and very descriptive, so unencyclopedic prose needs to be summarised and cleaned up. Redirect is also to me a fair option. VickKiang (talk) 06:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge with List of Marvel Comics characters: D in the spirit of WP:PRESERVE like @BOZ: had pitched. --Rtkat3 (talk) 23:47, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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