Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rom (Star Trek)

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Article is completely unreferenced. It is written in an entirely in-universe manner, and I can't find much real-world coverage of this character in secondary sources independent of the subject. These problems have existed for several years, and I don't see much hope that they can ever be resolved. The Wordsmith^Communicate 00:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

• Weak keep Apparently, he was a recurring character in 32 episodes over all seven seasons of Deep Space Nine. I never watched the show, but popularity is usually the reason that a particular character recurs in the first place. As with sports, Wikipedia sets a much lower bar on television articles when it comes to scholarly footnotes and bibliographies, and to an extent, fancruft has built up and supported the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. I think we've gotten away, thank heaven, from the premise that every TV episode and every character who ever made a lone visit to a show (I keep thinking of a long ago deleted article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr. Flint). There are alternatives-- redirect to Max Grodénchik or transwiki to Memory Alpha-- but that many appearances leans toward notable enough for its own article. Mandsford 01:59, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
• Weak keep. He's definitely one of the more prominent secondary, recurring characters. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
• Merge to one of the STar Trek character lists, a secondary character. 184.144.163.241 (talk) 06:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
• Keep. A recurring character in the series, perhaps the second-most famous Ferengi (after his brother Quark). JIP | Talk 06:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
• Keep per the five pillars A Nobody Has Returned From The Sea (talk) 11:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
• Merge content to List of recurring characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine An important recurring character, yet not to the extent of warranting an independent article.  Jørdan  15:45, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
• Weak keep. DS (talk) 19:13, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:17, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:17, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:17, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
• Keep character notability established by significant coverage in multiple sources. Plenty with which to expand and further source this article, specially as the character "grew" with the series, joined star fleet, and became key in many episodes.[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q=Rom%2C%20%2BStar%20Trek&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp][http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_user_ldate=1990&as_user_hdate=2011&q=Rom%2C+%2BStar+Trek+-CD&scoring=a&q=Rom%2C+%2BStar+Trek+-CD&lnav=od&btnG=Go] Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 01:57, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
• Redirect to List_of_Star_Trek_characters:_N-S#R. No appropriately cited content worth merging. --EEMIV (talk) 20:15, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
• Keep - the character is clearly notable. The article just needs improvement. I found thousands of sources in a few short clicks. KVIKountry (talk) 00:55, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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