Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah characters

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The result was delete. There are convincing arguments that this is likely a copyright violation. Sandstein 07:58, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah characters

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Delete The cast list is already in the main article, and the notability for the characters is non existent to warrant a separate article such as this. Aaron Booth (talk) 17:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:49, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy Delete: Useless fork and also mostly copy-vio of http://www.sabtv.com/comedy/character_details.php?sid=6&cid=41#c_41. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 19:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- This article has been around, in some form or another, since late 2010. Do you have evidence that the Wikipedia entry was the one copied without attribution, and not the other way around? If so, I agree that it should be deleted G12. Jclemens (talk) 01:27, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - The list was added in one 12 KB edit, so it's very likely that it was copied from somewhere. Flatscan (talk) 04:26, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- You mean someone wrote it here and then the official website of the serial decided to make a separate page of their own getting inspiration from Wikipedia? Thats very unlikely. Also this type of problem is seen on almost all Indian TV Serial articles. §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 05:47, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (assuming the copyvio assertion above proves to be unfounded, but that would trump this entire discussion if true) Non-notable characters from notable TV shows are typically grouped into a list similar to this. No problem with the content has been articulated that cannot be fixed by regular editing. Jclemens (talk) 01:28, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete G12. The first complete list (February 2011) was an unattributed split (cross-page diff) from the series article, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah. The list in that article was itself a copyvio of the SAB TV page dating back to October 2009. According to the Internet Archive, the inserted text was present in the SAB TV page as of June 2009. The main article has a history of copyright problems, so I will list it at WP:Copyright problems. Flatscan (talk) 04:26, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I listed the series article at WP:Copyright problems/2012 April 17. Flatscan (talk) 04:09, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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