Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Professor Carter Nichols

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to List of Batman supporting characters#Supporting characters. Feel free to merge primary sources from article. czar 05:19, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Minor comic book supporting character, plot summary referenced to comic books, prod removed without an edit summary. PROD was "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline requirement nor the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) supplementary essay. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar." Let me quote from one book [1]: "Only aficionados of Batman trivia would have heard of Professor Carter Nichols". Wikipedia should not be a repository of trivia for "aficionados", that's what Fandom/Wikia is for. (Maybe some fan would like to copy some of our content to https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Carter_Nichols_(New_Earth), our entry is a bit longer, I think, that fandoms...). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:06, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• Redirect to List of Batman supporting characters. The character already has an entry there and this is a natural alternative to deletion. Rhino131 (talk) 12:42, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to List of Batman supporting characters. This character is linked inline from 8 non-list articles, which is just over my personal threshold of "notable within the fiction". The brief description already present in the target list is sufficient coverage. Argento Surfer (talk) 13:40, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or merge with supporting characters section of the List of Batman supporting characters page while saving any important sessions and media appearances in the spirit of WP:PRESERVE. That is what I ask for the closer of this AFD. --Rtkat3 (talk) 16:53, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge. Subject doesn't warrant their own article, but it should be incorporated into list of Batman supporting characters. — ImaginesTigers (talk∙contribs) 13:43, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. A few years ago, there was a short lived but professional comics magazine (Comics Now? I’m unsure of the title) that did have an article on this character. I can’t find my issues, and may have gotten rid of them, and there may not have been much to it beyond plot synopsis, and in any event wouldn’t be enough to pass WP:GNG on its own, but might be a start to sourcing the article. Until then, I’d support a merge or redirect. --Killer Moff- ill advisedly sticking his nose in since 2011 (talk) 18:12, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Killer Moff: do you mean this? It's from 2007. Argento Surfer (talk) 13:14, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's the one! Thanks! (wow 2007, I'm older than I thought. Bah) Probably won't add much, but I thought it might spark a memory in someone. --Killer Moff- ill advisedly sticking his nose in since 2011 (talk) 13:54, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.