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The result was merge to
List of Babylon 5 characters. The most detailed source analysis indicates that the sources appear to be inadequate to satisfy notability criteria and has been uncontested, but apparently most participants see them as adequate for a section in a list.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
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08:58, 7 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Weak Keep The character is a regular in Season Five of the show, appearing in 8 episodes, and was the major character of that season's arcs. I fully agree that the article as written is very cruft-y, but there are undoubtedly thousands of articles for characters of less prominence in other TV shows, movies, books and games. From what I remember at the time, there was a lot of backlash by fandom against the character, so I would expect that there should be a number of independent sources, but possibly in print, not online.
Bluap (
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11:58, 31 October 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge Has no notability outside of the context of the show. Andrew's books, as usual, establish Babylon 5's notability but do not establish the need for a separate article about a character appearing in a single season.
Reywas92Talk18:46, 31 October 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect - I wouldn't say the above sources are useless, but I don't think they're strong enough to hold an entire article.
TTN (
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22:36, 1 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge into
List of Babylon 5 characters because
WP:SUMMARY was not observed in that list, and it is extremely bare-bones for non-minor characters. @
Piotrus: I recommend to do the same with all the other prod-ed B5 characters. As a group, these characters generally do have some notability and provide a starting point for a legitimate LoC. –
sgeurekat•
c11:33, 4 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge to
List of Babylon 5 characters. There are some sources that discuss the character, but most are brief and are more on the side of plot summary than any meaningful discussion or analysis. Not enough to support an independent article, but enough to add some sourced information on the character to the character list.
Rorshacma (
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00:18, 6 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge per others and this really has only an in-universe perspective. @
Zxcvbnm: - Per
WP:DEPROD, the deprodder is strongly encouraged to provide a reason but they are not mandated to do so. --
Whpq (
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20:24, 6 November 2019 (UTC)reply
True, even though I can't fathom why it isn't required. Andrew D alone has succeeded in breaking the PROD system completely with his removals while continuing to
ignore notability policy.ZXCVBNM (
TALK)23:18, 6 November 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Zxcvbnm: and @
Whpq: He is hardly the only one, there are similar notorious deprodders out there. Which is why the PROD system hardly works, and often many of us ignore it and go straight to here, because we are fed up with spurious prod declines for cases that we know will get deleted after AfD, wasting time of other editors because some inclusionist wanted to make
WP:POINT, again... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here02:31, 7 November 2019 (UTC)reply
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