Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Major

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 speedy keep. Nomination by a sock puppet of a banned user with no other significant arguments for deletion. –MuZemike 14:18, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Old Major

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Character is already briefly summarized through the main article Animal Farm and List of Animal Farm characters and does not need to be it's own independent article. Anonymax (talk) 23:55, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This work has been extensively analysed and critiqued in numerous works such as this. It is an allegory and so the characters have special significance and so merit good coverage. Their names are natural search terms and so make good article titles. It is our editing policy to keep such good material. Colonel Warden (talk) 00:34, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Animal Farm characters in which we see that the list has been created as an improper copyright violation of this article. The nomination is therefore untenable and should be speedily closed per WP:SK #2. Colonel Warden (talk) 00:57, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I am fine with keeping the individual character analyses if the List of Animal Farm characters is deleted; or with deleting the individual character treatments if List of Animal Farm characters is retained. This is an extremely influential allegorical work and expanded treatment of primarty characters is fully appropriate, in my estimation. Sourcing of the article needs to be improved. Carrite (talk) 03:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The individual character articles existed before Anonymax (talk · contribs) made the unilateral decision to combine them all by cutting and pasting the contents to a single article, thus destroying the edit history of the individual articles. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 12:58, 16 October 2010 (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.