Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of actors who played characters that portrayed Doctor Who

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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 delete. I think that one of the "Keep" votes is not 100% serious, and the other basically comes down to WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. That said, happy to userify if someone wants to move it to a fansite or somewhere where this sort of content is welcome. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:38, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of actors who played characters that portrayed Doctor Who[edit]

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This page span out of List of actors who have played the Doctor where it was thought to be too niche. However, this article has no external sourcing, nor are there likely to be any sources that discuss these appearances in depth (except possibly David Bradley's, and that has its own article). This sort of content would sit well on a Dr Who wiki, but it's not notable enough for Wikipedia. GedUK  12:16, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 15:54, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep LOLWUT?! I can't believe such an article even exists. It's too weird to delete. Let's keep it. BlueSalix (talk) 17:07, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. The list of canonical actors portraying The Doctor satisfies WP:LISTN, but this is unreferenced trivia more appropriate to Wikia. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:52, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Exterminate! Exterminate!. Per nom. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:02, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Exterminieren - more suited for a fan site--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 04:08, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - This GIF comes close to expressing my confusion: [1] Seriously, though: the circuitous title itself is a flag that maybe this is a little too niche/through the looking glass to be appropriate here. --EEMIV (talk) 22:48, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep For the moment at least. I'ld like to point out the title is an attempt to find room for more than one kind of list. The original table "Actors who played characters thought to be the Doctor" had a long history in the actors article it originally came from, but it got pushed out when tables that included Doctor Who leads, stand-ins, spoofs, even such timey-wimey phenomena as the Dreamlord, who was a creature of the Doctor's subconscious, started to fill the article. The existence of false Doctors has been a recurring feature throughout the show's long history. The reason the new article is not just called "Fake Doctors," or some such, is that at around the same time a debate started raging over whether the performers in the telemovie "An Adventure In Space And Time" would be listed in the actors article. I had hoped to make it possible, if not through a single article, then at least through a few links, to find out about every performance that portrays, in some way at least, a version of the Doctor. If you feel this article is not fixable through renaming, reorganizing, etc; then, I would propose that the older, more established table, be recast as something like "Psuedo-Doctors." As to 'notability' I would point out that 'psuedo-doctors' are comparable to these existing Doctor Who lists: List of Doctor Who Henchmen, List of Doctor Who Historical Characters, List of Doctor Who Robots.

. jg (talk) 09:54, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete- yeah, this is way too over-specific and crufty. And it's very poorly sourced. This kind of thing belongs on a dedicated Doctor Who wiki, not here. Reyk YO! 04:19, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete' - seriously, what?!?!? 94.193.96.72 (talk) 14:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Move to the doctor who page and then delete it does not need its own page! Dtbwlr99 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:30, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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