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 no consensus. Nobody's saying delete but the nominator but nobody's saying "keep" either. We have a suggestion to redirect to Character_(arts), a suggestion to merge to Story within a story and there's a "mergeto" tag on the article itself proposing a merge to Metafiction. Any of these can be done without AFD so I would suggest that the issue be discussed on the article's talk page or someone can be WP:BOLD and do one of these things. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:41, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Original research, would fail WP:SYNTH if it had any sources Citius Altius (talk) 02:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Character_(arts)#Fictional_fictional_character or possibly Story within a story. Probably a notable concept but that isn't established here, and nom.'s comments are on-target. JJL (talk) 02:33, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect per JJL or listify... although that last bit might be problematic, as inconsistent criteria appear to be used throughout the article. Jclemens (talk) 04:06, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: This may be a notable concept, but is it a notable term? I could find no reference to the term on Google, GoogleBooks or GoogleScholar. Without any mention of "fictional fictional character" in independent sources, the section in "Character (arts)" becomes WP:OR, and a redirect is redundant, surely? Mr_pand [talk | contributions] 09:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment this thought occurred to me too, but I decided to fight one fight at a time. The rest is an editorial decision at Character (arts), I figure. JJL (talk) 13:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge with Story within a story. Sceptre ^(talk) 11:10, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Story within a story, which is notable. This topic is not. Fictional fictional characters are, in the end, just fictional characters, the only thing different is that they are in a story within a story, or a story within a story within a story, etc. Drawn Some (talk) 12:54, 11 June 2009 (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.