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WP:NOTDATA,
WP:MILL. There’s a lot of Italian Americans on TV and there’s no point in exhaustively listing them with no meaningful context about their portrayal and significance. It also seems to be a case of
WP:GREATWRONGS since the only details provided are either negative/unflattering character traits or occupations that are usually stereotypes— basically
WP:OR cherrypicking for an implicit case that TV depicts Italian Americans negatively.
Dronebogus (
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09:05, 17 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Anyone can add anything to a category. I just added it there. The fact someone forgot to do it before doesn't mean anything. It is not indiscriminate since it list the specific requirements to be added at the top of the article.
DreamFocus14:36, 22 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep A valid information and navigational list, far more useful than the category for this since it offers far more information and helps people find what they are looking for. Only notable entries exist. The start of the article even says the requirements to be listed. To be included in this list, the character should be a main or frequently recurring character in a television series, and should have an article or section in Wikipedia. The character should be described as Italian-American in the text or categories.DreamFocus14:35, 22 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep. Meets
WP:NLIST, the list topic is notable (eg
[1][2] etc), the list is curated with clear inclusion criteria. And my own personal litmus, deleting this would make the encyclopedia worse. —
siroχo11:16, 2 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep per Dream Focus and siroxo above. No NLIST issue, and doesn't seem to be anywhere near being a NOTDATA issue either. --
Visviva (
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21:52, 2 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep Classifying people by national/ethnic origin is widespread on WP and AFAIK nobody has serious suggested that should be stopped. These are notable characters, there are clear membership criteria, it should be possible to reference their status (probably less controversially than for actual people). A lot of the reasons for deletion seem irrelevant, and even if it's cherry-picked to show bad characters (is
Joey Tribbiani that awful?), it can be fixed by editing and adding more entries. --
Colapeninsula (
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10:30, 7 July 2023 (UTC)reply
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