Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Captain Willard

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The result was merge to Apocalypse Now. A Train^talk 11:12, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Captain Willard[edit]

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Completely unsourced biography of a fictional character, written entirely as an in-universe bio and offering no real-world context to indicate why he would need a separate article from the existing cast list in the film's article. By comparison, Colonel Kurtz actually contains substantive and reliably sourced information about the character inspiration and Brando's performance -- which is exactly what a fictional character needs to qualify for a standalone article, and exactly what this doesn't have. We don't spin every character off to a standalone bio just because the character list blurb is getting a bit long — we spin a character off to a standalone bio when we can reliably source some context for why a standalone article is warranted. Bearcat (talk) 03:31, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Mark the train^Discuss 05:00, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Mark the train^Discuss 05:00, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Merge to "Apocalypse Now" Colonel Kurtz, by comparison, has resonance for being in Conrads Hearts of Darkness, and references to that.Deathlibrarian (talk) 07:38, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - too vague for a redirect, IMO, and non notable fictional character._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 02:23, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Apocalypse Now, a la Benjamin L. Willard, per WP:ATD as the underlying name is a reasonable redirect. Jclemens (talk) 06:51, 21 October 2017 (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.