Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walker Keel

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was merge and redirect to list of Star Trek characters (done by someone already). ugen64 21:31, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Walker Keel

Is every single fictional character who makes a cameo appearance in a single episode of Star Trek TNG honestly encyclopedic? If so, what is your definition of encyclopedic? 313 unique google hits. [1] --GRider\^talk 17:39, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, unless there's an article where these minor characters can be Merged to. Xezbeth 17:49, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with List of Star Trek characters. --Allen3 18:13, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as above. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:22, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as above. Every character on Star Trek deserves a mention, but not every character deserves an article. — JIP | Talk 18:44, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Interesting. Is every minor one-time character of every television show deserving of a mention, or is this indicative of a strong inherent bias towards Star Trek related material on Wikipedia? --GRider\^talk 19:08, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • Well... I might have put it too strongly. Minor characters who actually have a role in an episode or a book deserve a mention. Minor characters who are just named once and then disappear don't. — JIP | Talk 21:07, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• merge or keep minor characters who actually have a role. Same for every notable show (one that gets an article), if people want to write about them. Kappa 21:16, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge it. Wyss 22:20, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unnecessary to merge this fancruft. ComCat 04:01, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but with reservations. Cleanup and expand. Megan1967 06:53, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as per above. DaveTheRed 07:21, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge minor character. It's highly probable that this character will never appear anywhere other than in the one episode, so no possibility for expansion. Average Earthman 18:56, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Conspiracy (TNG episode) and redirect. The character is part of one and only one episode; he can certainly be filed under that; the list of minor characters should be kept to recurring ones---or are we going to stuff it with every single-episode villain never to be mentioned again? grendel|khan 20:17, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
• I was Bold and merge/redirected this article. All minor Star Trek characters generally seem to be consensussing on merge to List of Star Trek characters. So i am. Jdcooper 12:00, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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