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The result was Merge to List of recurring characters from The Simpsons. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-25 05:21Z

Martha Quimby[edit]

Martha Quimby (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Contested speedy. My own inclination would be to PROD this, but as the speedy is contested I think we can safely assume that the PROD would be too, so here we are. The original tagger expressed the following rationale: "unsourced Simpsons cruft. Minor character (at best) who has only made a few appearances." Mackensen (talk) 00:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per the nomination, and sterilize - dear God, that's hard to read. --Dennisthe2 00:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unsourced non notable minor character and the writing style is hard to decypher.--John Lake 00:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep. I'm not much of a fan of The Simpsons, but all of the other "Minor" characters have articles. Seeing as this is an encyclopedia, I believe the more encyclopedic content the better. :^) §†SupaSoldier†§ 00:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually, there are tougher standards for characters having pages (usually, to qualify for a page, a character must have been central to at least 2 episodes or appeared in hundreds of episodes), so not a lot of minor characters have pages. Not even Bumblebee Man has a page! -- Scorpion 16:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bumblebee Man doesn't have a page?! ¡Ay, caramba! Dugwiki 20:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. The article is unsourced and it is hard to determine notability. I am an avid Simpsons fan myself, but I barely remember who she is! --Nevhood 00:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Most "minor characters" in The Simpsons have memorable and notable gags. Other than not being able to make up her mind whether she's a parody of Jackie O or not, Mrs. Quimby has none. JuJube 00:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• If the standard for deleting characters is whether they have recurring gags, you'd better nominate this one next. Otto4711 03:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I almost want to take you up on that. ^_^ JuJube 04:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete or merge into List of recurring characters from The Simpsons. Natalie 01:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Rewrite then Merge Clearly suitable for the List of recurring characters from The Simpsons, but needs a little work. --Daniel J. Leivick 01:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to List of recurring characters from The Simpsons. I rewrote it into something that I think resembles English. Otto4711 01:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to aforementioned article.  V60 ^{VTalk · VDemolitions · Editor review 2!} 02:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. -- Scorpion 02:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom Veesicle (Talk) (Contribs) 03:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per Otto4711. Seems worthy of inclusion in that article. -- Chairman S. Talk ^Contribs 07:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge or delete, nn character Ulysses Zagreb 09:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Rewrite then Merge with Joe Quimby --The preceding comment was signed by User:Sp3000 (talk•contribs) 10:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or merge to List of recurring characters from The Simpsons. I'm not much of a Simpsons watcher, but if fans are saying (Nevhood above) they barely remember her, then she's not a recurring character, is she? So I'm leaning more towards Delete. Icemuon 11:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm a fan and I remember her. She's appeared, off the top of my head, in the episode with the burlesque house and the episode with the Red Hat ladies (with Lily Tomlin as guest voice) "I haven't heard of it" is not a valid deletion criterion. Otto4711 13:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• 'Merge and cleanup per Otto. // 3R1C 14:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and cleanup; to Joe Quimby or List of recurring characters from The Simpsons, maintainer's choice. Alba 16:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Really not important except for establishing the fact that the mayor is married. Never really had any significant role in the show. At all. I'm not even sure her first name is "Martha" either. No need to merge, all the info is in the Mayor's article. Just axe it. --UsaSatsui 16:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and cleanup per Otto4711. Gran2 16:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Although The Simpsons is great this is Not notable.Tellyaddict^{Editor review!} 17:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per Otto4711. -- Black Falcon 18:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Joe Quimby. Also, I would make a note of her on List of recurring characters from The Simpsons linking to the newly merged spot on Quimby's page. Seems sensible to me. Warhorus 18:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to Joe Quimby, per many above, as this information does not deserve its own article, but should be retained somewhere. Create link from the appropriate character list(s) to the section in the Joe Quimby article. -- saberwyn 22:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect either to Joe Quimby, or the List of recurring characters from The Simpsons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gimlei (talk • contribs) 00:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]
• Merge and redirectd to Joe Quimby. There really is not much information on this page, not enough even to add to the recurring characters list. However, if more information on her is found, she appears more often in the show, a name for her can be agreed on, and she gets a picture (if possible), then she would deserve to be on the list of recurring characters page. Rhino131 23:37, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge or Redirect to either list of reacurring characters or Joe Quimby. It fits to be included in both articles. 11kowrom 13:01, 22 February 2007 (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.