Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Melrose Place (2009 TV series) characters

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The result was no consensus. Stifle (talk) 13:01, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Melrose Place (2009 TV series) characters[edit]

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Delete - redundant to the existing List of Melrose Place characters. Fails WP:PLOT as nothing but a recounting of the story lines of the various characters. PROD declined by editor who routinely removes PRODs from fiction articles under a questionable interpretation of the process with the claim that this is a breakout list per WP:SS, but the existing list is hardly so large as to require a split, nor has the original list in fact been split since the 2009 characters are still on it. Given the amount of overlap between the original characters and the 2009 cast (three of the original characters were regulars on the new series and several additional characters made appearances in multiple episodes) a single list suffices. None of this material is referenced to secondary sources and this article's name is an improbable search term so no merge or redirect is necessary. Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 01:23, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Cliff smith ^talk 02:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Different information presented here. Instead of just a cast listing, it shows information about the fictional characters. This is what a character list article is suppose to have. Dream Focus 02:47, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The "information about the fictional characters" is a violation of WP:PLOT. Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 03:03, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as PROD decliner. If you look at the List of Melrose Place characters, two things are obvious: 1) this content is primarily unique, and 2) this article is a summary style breakout of that parent character list. It might be reasonable to merge this content back into the parent article, since "list of X characters" articles seem to generally ignore WP:LENGTH, just like it might be reasonable to trim the content... but both are editorial decisions and don't need AfD. Jclemens (talk) 02:57, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's clearly not a summary style split because the information was not split from the original list. It is an unnecessary duplication. Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 03:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The content need not have originated in the article of larger scope to be in summary style. Jclemens (talk) 19:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's certainly a convenient interpretation. Of course it's completely unsupported by the actual guideline... Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 20:13, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:09, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:10, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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