Deletion of Aviendha

Comment: and to answer Ubelowme's comments) The |general notability guideline requires the topic to have been the subject of "significant coverage in reliable, third party, independent sources", and as far as I can see it's not the case (and The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time being a primary source written by Jordan and his editors, does not qualify as such), so the topic is not notable and can't be a stand-alone article. As 98.216.136.159 pointed out, no, #WP:NRVE|notability is not inherited, notability is only shown through independent coverage, that ''the books'' are notable or popular doesn't make the characters suitable for stand-alone articles, only independent coverage does ("No subject is automatically or inherently notable merely because it exists: The evidence must show the topic has gained significant independent coverage or recognition"). The difference with an article like Severus Snape, since it was mentionned as an example, is that the character does have Severus_Snape#Reception|external coverage of some sort from critics. If someone wants to make something like "List of characters in the WoT", why not, but I personally don't really see the point of such article, the plot section of the series article, and the plot summaries for each of the books, are already enough to keep track of plot and characters, no need to be redundant in a "List of...", which is why I will support the nominator's plan of nominating more WoT characters
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:GNG)

Comment: I am certainly sympathetic to this nomination; there are overtones of ruft here and all these supporting character articles could use a good paring, I think.  I thought the most appropriate comparator would be the Harry Potter series, which is somewhat analogous in size and complexity -- although I suspect that the WoT series in total is much larger.  Harry Potter pages are in place for "major characters" like Severus Snape but supporting characters, some 40 of them, are relegated to a single long page; I think this is a good analogy for the notability question posed by the nominator in that a handful of characters are notable and dozens of others are not.  The trouble is that the WoT series is so immense that a character like Aviendha actually appears on the same number of pages (or has the same number of words written about her) as would be appropriate for the protagonist of a single "regular" novel.  Thus I suspect that if one created a page for Supporting characters in the WoT series it would be massively unwieldy.  The existing situation, with sub-pages and a navbox, seems like a reasonable compromise for utility to me; to continue the analogy to Harry Potter, I think there are a dozen or so major characters and -- good heavens, hundreds of supporting characters.  I think the third-party references can be solved by pointing all such pages to a "companion" volume such as ''The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time'' by Jordan himself -- doubtless there are others, or there will be once the series is complete.  And notability -- well, volumes 8 through 13 of the series have all spent time at #1 on the NYT best-seller list.  Certainly some of the characters are notable, and I suggest that the supporting character listing in the navbox is a reasonable take on inherent notability
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Copyrights (WP:C)