Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ed Kealty

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The result was redirect to Ryanverse. Content can be merged from the history. Sandstein 11:40, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Kealty[edit]

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This fictional has no WP:RS reliable sources which WP:V its general notability per the WP:GNG and WP:NFICT. Thus this subject is an unsuitable topic for a standalone article. AadaamS (talk) 17:08, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:51, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:51, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:25, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kharkiv07 (T) 01:36, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~. As in the related character deletions from this series, there is no secondary source coverage on this character's individual importance. I'm amenable to a merge back to a character section in some main article, but it isn't necessary. czar 16:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Ryanverse now that a suitable series article exists. The character's WP coverage should be proportional to its RS coverage. If the character is not used in several Clancy novels, redirect it to Teeth of the Tiger as a search term rather than to the series' character list. czar 11:19, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/redirect to Ryanverse. Here is a source I found about the subject:
Terdoslavich, William (2006). The Jack Ryan Agenda: Policy and Politics in the Novels of Tom Clancy: An Unauthorized Analysis. New York: Macmillan Publishers. p. 39. ISBN 0765312484. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
The book notes:
Ryan does not serve out his full term after getting elected in 1996/2000, depending on which branch of the timeline is correct. (Clancy does not practice detailed multivolume plotting like J.K. Rowling.) In Teeth of the Tiger, Clancy alludes to Ryan's resignation from the presidency, having become bored with the job he never sought. His vice president and close friend Robby Jackson becomes the first black president of the U.S., only to be gunned down by a Ku Klux Klan fanatic. Ed Kealty finally got elected, with Ryan quite displeased in private but holding his public tongue.
Kealty is Clancy's fictional stand-in for Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. Ted Kennedy took his best shot at the presidency in 1980, challenging President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. While Kennedy went the distance in the primary campaign, he unsuccessfully tried to use the convention's political process to undo the lock Carter had on the nomination. Since then, Kennedy has focused his energies on being a senator and becoming the so-called liberal lion of the Democratic Party.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction#Secondary information notes: "Examples of useful information typically provided by secondary sources about the original work, or primary and secondary sources about information external to the work:".
One example is "real-world factors that have influenced the work or fictional element". The discussion about how Ed Kealty is a stand-in for Ted Kennedy is useful secondary information.
Cunard (talk) 06:17, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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