Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of UNIT personnel

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The result was merge‎ to UNIT. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:13, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of UNIT personnel[edit]

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Article relies excessively on primary sources and focuses entirely on mostly minor one off characters. While some characters, such as Kate Stewart and Osgood, are recurring and make sense to have some mention on Wikipedia, many of the other characters here just generally lack notability. The contents of this article can probably just be merged with the Doctor Who Supporting Characters article, as well as the main article for UNIT. Pokelego999 (talk) 00:00, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, and Television. Pokelego999 (talk) 00:00, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, on the basis a list article is a more sensible way of recording minor characters in Dr Who. It would be excessive (and wouldn't solve the perceived problem anyway) to merge this with the UNIT article. Sionk (talk) 16:17, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Light Merge to UNIT - Most of the characters on this list are minor characters that only appeared in a single episode. The actual major, reoccurring characters should certainly be described on the main UNIT article, if they are not already, but the issue of a merge being excessive is not really relevant because most of the the entries on this list should not be merged. Rorshacma (talk) 16:46, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Selective Merge to UNIT per above Dronebogus (talk) 19:28, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:30, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep at least for now. I'm not a Whovian but the sourcing tends to be reasonably deep on Doctor-Who-as-a-whole, and appendix style spinoff articles are fine on sufficiently notable topics. Lists like this are fine, as long as the sourcing in the main UNIT article supports it. SnowFire (talk) 02:36, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to UNIT#Prominent members of UNIT. It is a list full of minor plotcruft; Wikipedia is not FANDOM. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:12, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/selective merge per Rorshacma. Most of the entries are unsourced. This is already covered in the main article, in a way that meets Wikipedia standards. Shooterwalker (talk) 22:49, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Agree with above. NavjotSR (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:46, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect or selectively merge per above. Would have to leave it to those of greater Whovian expertise to judge how much mergeable content there actually is here. -- Visviva (talk) 00:18, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Very selective merge Fails WP:LISTN. The major characters can be merged, the ones who appear in a single episode should not be. QuicoleJR (talk) 00:55, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Selective merge and redirect to UNIT per Rorshacma and ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ. Keep voters fail to provide an argument beyond WP:ITSUSEFUL, sadly, that's not enough and we need to respect WP:LISTN/WP:GNG. See also WP:FANCRUFT. Articles that consist solely of plot summary (and lists) are not very encyclopedic. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:06, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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