Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Delko

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The result was redirect to List of CSI: Miami characters. (non-admin closure) ansh 666 02:47, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Delko[edit]

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Non-notable fictional character. All but two of the provided references are references to Wikipedia itself -- and redirects to the list of episodes in per-season consolidation articles. Of the two other references, one is dead and the other is to a self-published recap site. This article described entirely in-universe context, and given no evidence of influencing culture, or literature, or any sort of literary study. No source of viable material is available to substantiate notability.

Pure fan cruft. Mikeblas (talk) 21:43, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:46, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:46, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep while this article may not have any of it, there is plenty of industry press on the character, per the 'news' link in the above find sources template. Please use WP:BEFORE as a guide to searching for material with which to improve an article before nominating it for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jclemens (talk • contribs) 01:17, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: It can be rather difficult to determine whether or not this particular character has received significant out-of-universe coverage from reliable, third-party sources. There is plenty of sources offering plot summaries of the character's appearance in the show and there are plenty of sources giving brief mentions to the character while discussing the actor. Due to this, it would be helpful to point to some of the sources that show a more in-depth coverage of the character that support his notability to the point of having his own page. Just for clarification, I am not disagreeing with you. I just was curious on which sources you have found that may be helpful for other users. Aoba47 (talk) 14:49, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of CSI: Miami characters per nom, and for the very reasons Aoba47 brought up in their above comment. While there are certainly plenty of hits that come up with searches, I'm having difficulty finding any that actually discuss the character in any meaningful way. Pretty much all the results I can find are either plot summaries, announcements that the actor (and thus character) is leaving/returning to the show, and brief mentions of the character in the context of talking about the actor (i.e., saying something along the lines of "Adam Rodríguez, who previously played Eric Delko in CSI: Miami, will be doing such and such"). The article is currently nothing but pure plot information, and I'm finding no sources that would really do anything to rectify this. 64.183.45.226 (talk) 16:44, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of CSI: Miami characters per nom and above comment. Aoba47 (talk) 01:47, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:59, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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