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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:17, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of fictional characters named Sarah or Sara[edit]

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Per WP:NOTDIR, which prohibits "Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics such as (but not limited to) quotations, aphorisms, or persons (real or fictional)." I fail to see how being called "Sarah or Sara" is a significant enough connection between these characters for there to be a listing of them. Furthermore, this list is entirely open-ended and there are no criteria to judge which characters should be included or not. Anthem of joy (talk) 16:17, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per "WP:NOT an indiscriminate list" of information. This one is unmaintainable, the selection of works is either random, or, if meant to be exhaustive, must include even the most trivial of accessory figures in the most trivial of pop culture ephemera. No structuring, ordering principle within the list. No encyclopedic value. Note that it was actually created with the edit summary "hooray we have a new directory of names that runs against our WP:NOT a directory policy, yayyyyyyy" – which would make it a borderline case for speedy deletion as an intentionally disruptive (WP:POINT) creation, if not for the fact that the creator apparently considered it a lesser evil while refactoring this list out from the main Sarah (given name) article. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:01, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious delete this prohibited list. Doczilla _STOMP! 11:26, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I can't think of any reason to keep this, I don't think we need pages listing every fictional character with a certain name. Qrsdogg (talk) 18:30, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 18:13, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 18:13, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Upmerge into List of people with the given name Sarah or Sara or selective upmerge to Sarah (disambiguation). All (notable) fictional characters named "Sarah" who are primarily known by that given name need to be mentioned on the dab page Sarah (disambiguation). To prevent the dab page from overflowing, per MOS:DABNAME it was and is feasible to have the List of people with the given name Sarah or Sara. So as not to disturb disambiguation (and also navigation), don't delete valuable dab content and instead drop it off in a parent list. – sgeureka ^t•c 18:37, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can merge the names of any characters which have articles if you wish, but I don't really see the encyclopaedic value of having a list for people with a common first name. Anthem of joy (talk) 19:32, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Still delete - do not upmerge. In fact, List of people with the given name Sarah or Sara should get deleted too. Doczilla _STOMP! 04:08, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Standalone lists need to be about notable topics, just like any other article. There's no indication that anyone has ever found this a list worth creating. Will Beback talk 20:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I used to argue for lists of most notable people with a name, within Anthroponymy articles; see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Archive 6 if you can be bothered. Now I acknowledge that popular names result in a hopeless case that can never be comprehensive, nor have consensus on selection; the same goes for List of people with the given name Sarah or Sara. I do agree that any person known by the name Sarah alone (cf. "Elvis") should be on the disambiguation page, see MOS:DABNAME. - Fayenatic (talk) 21:17, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. —Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 00:27, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge back to Sarah (given name). Apparently split on 15 December 2008 (along with List of people with the given name Sarah or Sara, also at AfD), but no edit summary was used. See [1] --Tothwolf (talk) 07:54, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Directory of loose items around a random name. Being fictional characters is but a circumstantial connection - frankieMR (talk) 23:09, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and DO NOT Merge - per original nomination, has no utility and violates NOT#DIR with no justification. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:55, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The article does not meet the criteria of appropriate topics for lists because the list falls into what Wikipedia is not since it is an indiscriminate collection of information, a non-encyclopedic cross-categorization and the concept behind the list is trivial. Jfgslo (talk) 04:52, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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