Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beowulf Shaeffer

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 keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:41, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Beowulf Shaeffer

This character does not establish notability independent of Known Space through the inclusion of real world information from reliable, third party sources. Most of the information is made up of original research and unnecessary plot details. There is no current assertion for future improvement of the article, so extended coverage is unnecessary. TTN (talk) 17:14, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge version with reduced plot details (and the supporting characters section cut out) to Known Space. This character appears in several of the works in the universe and is thus more notable than one off characters. - Mgm|^(talk) 00:08, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Merging every important character to Known Space would make the article incredibly long; the series spans over 40 books and stories by Niven himself and a similar number by other authors. Are we also to merge Louis Wu, Teela Brown, Nessus, Speaker-to-Animals, Jack Brennan, Buford Early, Ulf Reichstein Markham, etc...?
Keep No possible reason not to merge or at least redirect, and none is even asserted in the nomination, so listing for deletion is the wrong way to go about improving the article or wikipedia. This group of nominations is in total defiance of deletion policy & a wrong use of t he nominator';s and everyone else's efforts. DGG (talk) 05:21, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per MGM Ryan4314 (talk) 06:30, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per DGG. Hobit (talk) 15:07, 14 December 2008 (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.