Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One Life to Live children

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Sourced only to episode recaps, no secondary sources whatsoever. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

:Delete - *Ugh* Wikipedia's goal is teaching general overview of any topic. This page is too much to be general, and lack of out-of-universe entries doesn't help matters at all. WP:Articles for deletion/List of miscellaneous General Hospital characters can prove why this article shouldn't exist, and the cancellation of the soap opera doesn't help matters, anyways. List of Sailor Moon characters and List of The Price Is Right pricing games are messy, but I couldn't nominate them for deletion because... I may be accused of being a crusader again and be blocked again. Without out-of-universe coverages within this page, I can't think any reason why this article must exist at all. --George Ho (talk) 05:47, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:15, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

• Delete as nothing but plot. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 19:22, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
• Keep and trim, or merge to a character list. Character lists from notable television shows derive their notability from the show itself, so the individual entries need not have independent RS to establish notability--Verifiability (without interpretation) of such fictional material can be established via primary sources themselves. Jclemens (talk) 21:39, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
• How does your point make this list of fictional children notable? The list itself is the topic, not the individual characters; it needs something, like this: List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters... Well, not exactly like that, but it needs reception. Without reception, or out-of-universe notability, there is no need or point to have a separate list of children, is there? Well, I don't think critics and scholars significantly covered those children in general. --George Ho (talk) 02:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC) One question: which is more important, the plot or reception? --George Ho (talk) 02:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
• One Life to Live is notable. Characters lists are WP:SS breakouts from the main article, usually based on WP:LENGTH, and derive their notability from the main topic. Jclemens (talk) 03:28, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
• The show's notability doesn't make the list notable; out-of-universe significant coverages of children do. Per WP:AADD, that argument to me is nothing more than WP:ASSERTN or WP:INHERIT, no offense. --George Ho (talk) 03:55, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
• Merge: Merge with One Life to Live miscellaneous characters because it takes on the same meaning. Children I don't believe deserve a separate article. Casanova88 (talk) 19:26, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
• Merge with One Life to Live miscellaneous characters (which could also use some heavy trimming). There is no reason to have a separate list for the children. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 13:23, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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