Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Montgomery

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 All My Children characters. Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:56, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Montgomery

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This fictional character does not meet WP:GNG. His storylines are not significant, his relationships with others are not significant, and even he himself is not significant to the show All My Children. List of All My Children characters mentions only his biological and/or legal relations to other people, such as Bianca Montgomery; there has not been one significant storyline in that entry. I don't think any articles of other characters mention him either at all or very much. Lily Montgomery used to mention him, but it is now gone per AfD. No news publications have mentioned this character at all; even soap opera periodicals have not covered this character at all. When someone like DGG claims significance of this character, I want examples and periodical sources, reliable or not, inserted in this discussion before article improvements have been made. —George Ho (talk) 05:04, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 21:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 21:35, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of All My Children characters. Jclemens (talk) 23:41, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, with the stipulation that at least one full paragraph of content be preserved. The problem I have with merging for fiction characters is the tendency of the people who think the content altogether inappropriate at Wikipedia to reduce a merge to a sentence, remove a sentence to a list of names, and then to argue that if it;s just a list of names there's no real content. (Yes, though I do not consider articles on minor characters like this appropriate, I do consider information on them appropriate in some fashion--in my case, not because I'm a fan of such series:n point of fact, I almost never watch them, cannot recall ever having watched this one, know about it only what I read in Wikipedia--and everything I've read has convinced me further that I I was right in never bothering with them. Rather, it's because I'm not, and therefore need to know something of the subject if I see an allusion to them in something I am reading. I find in reading the Wikipedia articles, that the best way of understanding them is not just the episode by episode summary, but the discussion of the events around each particular character. It's in a sense duplicative, but really, it's just reorganizing the material in an alternate fashion. The decision at Lily Montgomery was unfortunate. DGG ( talk ) 18:17, 25 November 2011 (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.