Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Star (character)

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 redirect to List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters. Consensus is that this page is not notable but should be redirected to List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters Davewild (talk) 18:03, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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Not necessary (nor does the character warrant its own article), since the content therein does not differentiate from the SpongeBob characters page, and is completely in-universe and badly written to boot. Beemer69 ^chitchat 17:05, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. I've tried in the past to find sources but there's not anything useful around. It's highly unlikely that this article will be anything other than a description of the character based on what is seen on the show, which can just be summarised in the List of characters article. Bill ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:10, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - As much I love the character, nom' is right. Leonard^(Bloom) 17:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy Redirect to List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters--You don't need an AfD to do that. Jclemens (talk) 18:11, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect The article simply restates what's already in the main article. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 18:18, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
• This is what, the third title for this page? It's getting ridiculous tracking all of them. The article should be merged and redirected, but there is no need for an AfD to do so. seresin ( ¡? ) 19:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
  • It should be redirected. There are no particular rules restricting redirection pages that I know of. Somebody started this spinoff article back in May, but there doesn't seem to be anything in it that's not already in the main article. If I'm feeling sufficiently bold, I might just go ahead and do it. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 20:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
    • I redirected the page when it was ressurrected, but the editor who recreated it disagreed that there was a consensus that it should be a redirect. I think it's clear now one way or the other that there's a consensus that there shouldn't be an article. Bill ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:40, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
      • Especially as he hasn't bothered to weigh in on this discussion. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 22:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
        • The only reason I haven't weighed in is because it would've been a useless attempt to save the page.--Degenerate-Y (talk) 00:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
          • How about making your case for it? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 01:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
• Question hasn't this discussion been had already at a previous AfD? I seem to remember one but, it isn't linked to this. Jasynnash2 (talk) 09:28, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
  • One editor says this is possibly the third time. Is there an index of the items nominated for deletion? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 10:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
    • Beemer probably didn't catch the AFD as the article is using a different name, but there's an AFD for Patrick (SpongeBob SquarePants). There was also a full article (not just a redirect) at Patrick Star. So that's 2 more articles on Patrick other than this one being discussed. Bill ^{(talk|contribs)} 13:02, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

(EC) Previously on "Deleting SpongeBob Characters"... this happened on the 17th June 2008 followed by this on the 10th July 2008. As for an index to AfD, all I did was search for the title of this AfD, when you do an AfD if the AfD already exists you will see it, but the name would have to be an exact match. In essence the article was made on 26 June 2003 then recreated on 21 June 2008, after the original has been redirected, then the new page was moved to Patrick Star, then on the 6th August the page Patrick Star was redirected, in the mean time this page was created and then redirected to Partrick (SpongeBob Squarepants) on the same day as the other redirect. So now we have four pages for Patrick (Two redirects, Patrick (SpongeBob SquarePants), Patrick Star, and the page they redirect to List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters) including this page. I would say that overwhelming consensus based on previous actions is to redirect, and keep all information on that redirected page. This is the third creation of this page, as well as the three redirects I suggest someone thinks of all other search possibilities and sets up redirects. In case you didn't know Redirect. Darrenhusted (talk) 13:07, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 20:30, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

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.