Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayor Brown (Yogi Bear)

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 Yogi Bear (film)#cast. T. Canens (talk) 20:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mayor Brown (Yogi Bear)[edit]

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Non-notable character in a film, user has been repeatedly asked to stop creating similar articles Yaksar (let's chat) 04:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Very non-notable and generic villain in a critically derided movie, no notability. If the editor continues to insist on creating this, a salt may be suggested. Nate • (chatter) 06:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not notable enough for a stand alone article. Minor character appearing in a single film (independent of critical derision). Notability not established by reputable third party sources. Mention of character would be appropriate in other articles, such as the Yogi Bear film. I already see it (appropriately) mentioned in the Andrew Daly article. I went ahead and added Daly's voice credit to the appropriate listing of voices in the article on the film. Editor might consider contributing to those articles instead of creating single articles about non-notable characters. --Quartermaster (talk) 13:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:25, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:26, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - minor character recently introduced in the new Yogi Bear film, no historical significance or significant referencing outside the film itself. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 15:04, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-notable character. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:46, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as a reasonable search term to Yogi Bear (film)#cast where this minor character has as much mention as he could possible merit. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 10:05, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I tried redirecting the original article multiple times - article creator constantly reverted that, which led to this AfD. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 15:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate that valient efort. The author is not a total newbie,[1] but from his talk page seems to still be feeling his way through our processes.[2] Hopefully this time the redirect will be protected by the closer so it cannot be undone. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 22:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Yogi Bear (film)#cast per User:MichaelQSchmidt, just as we did with the Ranger characters. Let's be consistent. Bearian (talk) 22:22, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment/Question Is "Mayor Brown (Yogi Bear)" really going to be a reasonable search term? I don't particularly care either way, but I'm not sure if anyone would likely be searching this (on a side note, I'd find it unlikely that anyone would be searching at all for a generic stock character from a not particularly successful movie, but that's really just my opinion.)--Yaksar (let's chat) 22:49, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- If some reader (not me) is a fan of the film, then yes... it is a reasonable term that at least for that reader and for him, not generic. And as we do have disambig links to articles on a Mayor Brown of Buffalo and a former Mayor Brown of San Francisco and a Mayor Brown of Knoxville and a former Oakland Mayor Brown (now California governor), the disambig would be needed. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 06:58, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Oh, I'm talking more about what to do with the actual page "Mayor Brown (Yogi Bear)" than with the disambiguation page. It seems unlikely that anyone will ever search that with this exact phrasing; it makes more sense to just list it on the disambiguation page I made with a link to the movie.--Yaksar (let's chat) 07:03, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - That's always an option, certainly... but even as someone created the article in the first place, its not that unlikely or unbelievable that someone else might come searching. A reader might have seen the movie and or even appreciate the character of the Mayor who wanted to shut down Jellystone Park. In cashing in on existing audience interest (not mine), its conceivable that the film could have a sequel or even that the Mayor character might eventually gain notability. That the actual page becomes a redirect serves both Wikipedia and whatever reader that might come looking. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 09:16, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Yogi Bear (film)#cast. Protect the page if you think the user might un-redirect it. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 17:47, 10 February 2011 (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.