Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foaly

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The result was redirect to List of Artemis Fowl characters#Foaly. (I hope nobody objects to me targeting the section in the list) – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 13:57, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Foaly

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What we have here is a pure plot summary related to a secondary character in a book series, with OR mixed in ("role in the series" section) and a very fancrufty "list of inventions". The references present are PRIMARY (books from the series Artemis Fowl). BEFORE found little - there are a few sentence of analysis in this academic book chapter (I am linking this through Wikimedia Library, a useful tool), but I think WP:SIGCOV is not met, and other sources I see seem to be even more in passing and less analytical. I suggest redirecting this to the List of Artemis Fowl characters. If anyone feels like rescuing something, they could try to add a bit of analysis to the list of characters entry using the source I found, even a single sentence would help as it would add said reference to Wikipedia for future editors to have something to work with (the analysis IMHO boils down to a single sentence about how making this character a genius inventor of technology gadgets makes him less of animal and more human... that's it). Maybe one day more significant treatments of this character will emerge. But considering the article's current state (plot summary+OR), there is little to be lost outside maybe the lead, infobox, and the categories anyway. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:07, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, and Literature. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:07, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Artemis Fowl characters - The source linked to in the nomination above is the best I was able to find as well. His name does come up in some other academic papers in analyses of the Artemis Fowl series, but these are all very brief one-two sentence mentions, that generally just explain his role in the overall plot of the franchise rather than give any kind of discussion or analysis beyond that. His overall role in the franchise is already described in the main series character list, and there is not enough to say beyond that to make a spinout article necessary. That one decent source should be added to his section in the character list for sure, though, as it is currently completely unsourced, and the only sources being used in this article are the Artemis Fowl books themselves. Rorshacma (talk) 16:50, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Artemis Fowl characters: While I could find some passing mentions, there was only one in-depth source. That one source could be added to the target article. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 12:30, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect Searches did not find WP:SIGCOV. Only found WP:TRIVIALMENTIONs that someone can add to the main article. Shooterwalker (talk) 23:43, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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