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 List of fictional people of the Three Kingdoms. Possibly List of people of the Three Kingdoms as well.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:36, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of people of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms[edit]

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Requested by 220.255.1.85 for being a duplication of an existing page, an older version of List of people of the Three Kingdoms dated February 2011. Benjitheijneb (talk) 20:12, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I personally do not see any reason why this list must exist, but I am unwilling to base my own uncertainty as a reason for its deletion; I can imagine a use for a list of characters in this novel - which comprises neither the whole of the fictional characters list nor the whole of the historical personnages list; thus, I am unsure whether this qualifies for WP:Notability or WP:PLOT. Granted, the article is nevertheless a carbon copy of the old version of List of people of the Three Kingdoms, but I am also uncertain whether to delete it on that grounds, as such an act may be demolishing a house before it's built. Thus, I will reserve comment until explanatory Wikipedia guidelines are presented which resolves these issues. Benjitheijneb (talk) 20:25, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Delete. As per _dk's objection of the article being a content fork (as seen on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Three Kingdoms), combined with concerns over WP:Notability stated above WP:PLOT. Benjitheijneb (talk) 20:58, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, having just seen that the fictional characters list ALREADY clarifies which characters are and are not from Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Benjitheijneb (talk) 21:17, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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• Merge any useful content to List of fictional people of the Three Kingdoms. Merge is additionally indicated by the usefulness of this title as a redirect. Anarchangel (talk) 17:17, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: I have disabled AfD tags linking to this discussion at User:Gauge00/PeopleRomance and User:Gauge00/PeopleRomanceEdit as they are in user space, depending on the outcome of the discussion here those pages may need to be looked at. Monty₈₄₅ 05:27, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge chapter citations into List of fictional people of the Three Kingdoms and possibly List of people of the Three Kingdoms. In my opinion this doesn't comprise a content fork since its domain is solely Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but our two current lists have enough problems as it is without introducing a third even more problematic list. Snuge purveyor (talk) 04:25, 3 July 2012 (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.