Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esmé Squalor

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The result was procedural keep. A look at the nominator's past edits shows that they made a similar round of AfD nominations back in September and they were specifically warned on their talk page that AfD is a last resort, only if merging is not an option. Per current conventions, list pages for popular, notable series like ASoUE with multiple characters are allowable and are considered to pass notability guidelines for list pages. I don't see where the AfD for the list page would close any other way other than a "keep", so that leaves merging as an option. As for the individual pages, there is merit in the idea that these characters do not have independent notability outside of the series, however the first option here should have been to suggest a merge - an option that the nominator should already have been fully aware of - especially since the talk page for this list article shows that several other characters have been merged into the list page, which suggests that like the prior AfDs, the nominator may not have done their due research while nominating these articles for deletion. AfD is not a way to WP:CLEANUP articles and merging is a part of cleanup. I'm closing this and opening up a merge discussion at Talk:List_of_supporting_A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events_characters#Merge_and_retitle. This comment is going to be placed on all of the AfDs, so forgive me for making it a bit general. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:39, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Esmé Squalor

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WP:FANCRUFT. No real world coverage. DJ Autagirl (talk) 07:03, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 December 19. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 07:19, 19 December 2015 (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.