Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brainy Smurf
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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 keep. v/r - TP 15:47, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Non-notable character. Does not meet WP:GNG. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 06:49, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak keep, though I can see a merge to a list of characters as perhaps a better solution. Apart from being in dozens of books, animated shorts, two movies, and loads of merchandising, he is a kind of archetype, used as an example of the "literary intellectual" by e.g. Thomas Pynchon in the NYTimes[1], or in stories like here and non-fiction books likethis one. Also in other languages: the "Sctroumpf à lunettes" is used as a type of a child[2]. Fram (talk) 08:02, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep He smurfs the smurfability criteria. --Dweller (talk) 09:17, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 14:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 14:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge. Clearly notable, but there just isn't enough encyclopedic to say about him to be worth breaking out into his own article. Powers T 02:12, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Fram, but no objection to editorial merge. Jclemens (talk) 02:48, 12 September 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.