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A fact from Walter White (Breaking Bad) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 August 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Bryan Cranston was cast as Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White based on his performance in an episode of The X-Files? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Walter White (Breaking Bad).

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– This seems unquestionably the primary topic, as the others don't seem as well known or widely read. A previous RM almost ended with consensus to move. Kailash29792 (talk) 12:23, 21 April 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 20:17, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose Fictional characters should never have precedence over real persons, no matter how likely the character meets PRIMARY. --Masem (t) 13:41, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Who says? Look at Peter Griffin or Jack McCoy. PRIMARY doesn't care if the persons in question are fictional or not.--Ortizesp (talk) 14:44, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support, clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.--Ortizesp (talk) 14:44, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per long-term significance. Even as a topic in pop culture, the article normally gets about 2/3 of the usage (as measured by onward clicks from the dab page: I've checked data for Nov 2020 and Jan 2022); most of the traffic for March this year month was actually for the early 20th-century activist Walter Francis White [1], but that may be down to a seasonal spike. – Uanfala (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support for same reasons as Ortizesp --Taynix (talk) 16:03, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support As Walter Francis White (or Walter F. White) is only a partial title match. The character is the clear primary topic amongst people named "Walter White". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:52, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • NB that most sources call him "Walter White". —  AjaxSmack  03:58, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    @AjaxSmack: Alright, I take back what I said about it being a partial title match then. I still feel like pageviews alone are sufficient to mark the character as primary though. I would not oppose linking Walter F. White directly from a hatnote in the main Walter White article in order to aid navigation as best as possible, so it would not be any different than using a disambiguation page. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support per the reasons given by Ortizesp and Zxcvbnm. BarrySteakfries (talk) 13:48, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Note that this is already the case for all other Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul character pages. I also agree with the reasons given by Ortizesp and Zxcvbnm. Arthur10101 (talk) 16:17, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Per WP:DPT "While long-term significance is a factor, historical age is not determinative." There is also no rule that states fictional characters cannot be a primary topic over a real person with the same name. Calidum 19:05, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per the nominator's rationale and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 20:51, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Ngrams shows no change in use of the name "Walter White" since 2000 (the show aired in 2008) suggesting that almost all uses of the name are not related to the character and that WP:PRIMARYTOPIC is not met. BilledMammal (talk) 06:42, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per my rationale from a previous request: "Oppose per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC (the character does not have "substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term"). Walter Francis White, who is called "Walter White" in most sources, is alone more important than the character. In sum, a more important real person should not be subsumed to a less important fake person." —  AjaxSmack  03:58, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per nom. Geanard (talk) 07:16, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per above Oppose !votes. Cheers! Fakescientist8000 (💬) 01:19, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as I agree what people above have been saying. Darkster122 (talk) 16:46 01 May 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:PRIMARY. JOEBRO64 03:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support since I agree with what others have been saying. Loganp23 (talk) 08:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Whoops, meant to reply to the original post :P Loganp23 (talk) 08:24, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Oppose - Walter Francis White seems to be receiving just about as many outgoing page views from Walter White. Schierbecker (talk) 04:58, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per nom. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 14:50, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per Masem, Uanfala, BilledMammal, AjaxSmack, Fakescientist8000 and Schierbecker. There are ten entries listed upon the Walter White disambiguation page, including two characters. Among the eight others, Walter White, the longtime leader of the NAACP, about whom a number of books have been written, is clearly the most important. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:50, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose clearly not a primary topic with long term significance more than all others combined. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:25, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose but I do not agree with other editors' determinations that Walter Francis White is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC alone - both are about equally primary, which is why the DAB is at the main title. casualdejekyll 01:47, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support Walter White from Breaking Bad is the subject almost universally referred to when someone mentions "Walter White". Other people or characters named Walter White do not have nearly as much significance as the Breaking Bad character. The character himself is culturally significant and well known enough to warrant a large page, and should take predominance over other more minor people of the same name. 69.117.72.11 (talk) 02:13, 11 May 2022** (UTC)

• SEVERE Oppose This is a Fictional Character sharing the name with other notable people. The tag (Breaking_Bad) allows for disambiguation. People arent always going to be looking for the fictional character, and the request here would involve destroying the disambiguation page. The name allows for people to know that they are getting exactly what they are looking for. In this instace a disambiguation is necessary. It does not matter who gets looked up more, all articles in this disambiguation are notable.PerryPerryD Talk To Me 14:48, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]