Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doctor Impossible

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 redirect to List of DC Comics characters. There were two different possible redirect targets mentioned, I went with the one that was mentioned more often. I have no problem with somebody redirecting this to another target on their own. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:56, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor Impossible[edit]

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Non notable character, fails GNG, only primary sources. Any attempt to retain the unsourced info would face the same problem. Killer Moff- ill advisedly sticking his nose in since 2011 (talk) 13:02, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Killer Moff- ill advisedly sticking his nose in since 2011 (talk) 13:02, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. Killer Moff- ill advisedly sticking his nose in since 2011 (talk) 13:02, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of DC Comics characters: D - minor character with no real world notability.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:58, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:59, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Possible keep. Is this the same Doctor Impossible that appears in Soon I Will Be Invincible? Because if it is, the character has escaped from DC Comics into a generic character. All the characters in this novel are based on, or are pastiches of, DC Comics and Marvel characters, so it has to be at least related. This Doctor Impossible is discussed at length in Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation (ISBN 0429663803) in an out-of-universe context. SpinningSpark 21:26, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinningspark: is there something in the character description that makes you think they might be the same, or is it just based on the name? I don't have an answer, but I'm inclined to think they are different, and the name is generic enough to be the sort seen in multiple different uses. The DC character was created in 2006, and the book was published by Penguin in 2007. I don't think DC would let another publisher use the same character. This isn't really good criteria, but the Doctor Impossible article also has a hatnote saying if you're looking for the character associated with the novel, then go to the book page... -2pou (talk) 18:54, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- No reason other than the name and that the whole thing was inspired by DC/Marvel characters. SpinningSpark 19:08, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - No third party sources, fails GNG. TTN (talk) 16:42, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of DC Comics characters: D.4meter4 (talk) 18:34, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:09, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - And Redirect to Soon I Will Be Invincible. It does not appear that this character has any relation to the character from the far more notable book, as suggested above. However this space would be far better used as a redirect to the book's article. The List of DC Comics characters: D is a bloated, unsourced, completely useless block of random, out of context names (it includes such "important" DC characters as "Dennis", "Dennis' father" and "Dennis' mother" among others), so a redirect there would not be particularly useful to anyone. Rorshacma (talk) 04:26, 8 October 2019 (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.