Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allanon

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 merge to The Sword of Shannara. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:00, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Allanon

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Article has been around for 10 years, but has yet to prove any out-of-universe notability. All of the sources are dead or unreliable. The article was merge-warred over recently, so perhaps an AFD will generate more discussion — so far, I'm not seeing a scrap of notability here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:43, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Jinkinson talk to me 01:49, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 02:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm looking around for some sources, but doubt I'd get any. However, it'd be a shame to see this get deleted. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:19, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to The Sword of Shannara#Characters. While I deprodded the article as a controversial deletion, I also am unable to find in-depth independent treatments of this character. There are comparisons to Gandalf and Merlin out there, but nothing that would allow this article to pass WP:GNG thresholds. Nonetheless this is a major character in The Sword of Shannara and other novels in the series and basic facts about the character are verifiable in authoritative primary and sparse secondary sources. Per WP:PRESERVE, preservation of this verifiable information through merging (a selective merge in this case) is preferable to deletion. As the first novel in which the character appears, The Sword of Shannara is a natural merge target. As Allanon is a plausible search term, a redirect is warranted as well. --Mark viking (talk) 05:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to The Sword of Shannara#Characters or delete. The character is already described adequately at the target location, and Wikia already exists for higher levels of detail. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:23, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Mark viking. VMS Mosaic (talk) 07:25, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - There is nothing to show that the article has any potential to pass WP:N, so it does not need to exist in its current state. TTN (talk) 16:01, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Redirect; nothing to show general notability outside of the fictional genre. N2e (talk) 20:05, 27 January 2014 (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.