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 delete. kur ykh 06:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current Days of Our Lives characters

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Redundancy. The template already covers the information in this article. Matthew Glennon^(Talk) 17:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the other references, as summed up by User:Elonka:

Matthew Glennon^(Talk) 17:23, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Per nom, this is redundant of the template and frought with redundant plot summary. The creator has also stated here that "This article that I CREATED, is meant to be a day by day plot update page because I CREATED IT for that sole purpose." Obviously this violates Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#PLOT: and WP:FICTION and further convinces me of its lack of value. I think it is a simple case of a new editor not understanding policy and that this is an encyclopedia, not Soap Opera Digest. — TAnthony^Talk 17:27, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per above. Looking over the various talk pages involved, the creator has some serious WP:OWN issues. Ravenswing 17:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. We already have other lists and a template which cover this information. --El on ka 18:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Looking at the other pages, I find either bare lists or partial information about some characters only. Here I find, conveniently, some information about both the minor and major current characters, which seems to me a useful arrangement. This grouping seems an appropriate presentation of information. I see only the minimal amount of plot summary to give context. DGG (talk) 00:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could we update the character pages with the new information from this page first/ -- Matthew Glennon^{(Talk to me)} 01:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The individual character pages are chock full of info, as are the family articles, I don't see a need for this slim regurgitation, especially if it only exists to provide the latest plot developments. A one-sentence overview per character would provide context; the entry for Nick Fallon here lets us in on the fascinating and crucial fact that he "Called his job to ask for some time off as he stated that he would be heading off to France." LOL. — TAnthony^Talk 03:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quite. This isn't daysofourlivespedia.com, and we don't have to have a running commentary of every event that has happened to every character in the course of a show that has run over six thousand hours of screen time. Ravenswing 15:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The page up for discussion lists 41 characters. Template:Days of our Lives lists about 30. One option is to add those other 11 minor characters to the template, and link them to the entries at List of Days of our Lives characters or Minor characters of Days of our Lives. I was actually surprised to see that the "minor" list has more information about characters than the major DOOL list, which just lists the names without any additional information. I prefer the style of List of General Hospital characters, which provides (in my opinion) a more useful resource. --El on ka 15:12, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added some of the additional names to the template (except dead Trent, Henderson, etc) for the time being. Short character overviews a la the GH list would be fine and probably helpful in the Days list. I would have been all for doing that here, but it seems that the creator wants it in its current form period, which of course is unacceptable.— TAnthony^Talk 16:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like List of Days of our Lives characters may need even more cleanup, anyway. I'll post more detailed notes at Talk:List of Days of our Lives characters... --El on ka 16:54, 8 October 2008 (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.