Deletion of Robert Ritchie (The West Wing)

Comment: 100%  with no evidence of being anywhere close to meeting /
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Fancruft (WP:FANCRUFT||WP:GNG||WP:NFICTION)

Comment: I participated in that earlier AfD discussion, and the primary article suggested for deletion at the time (Mandy Hampton) ended up being improved per  with reliable secondary sources and real-world content and themes beyond just a fictional biography. I imagine each if not all three of the articles in this AfD (though I'm less sure about Ritchie than the other two) could be similarly improved if a Wikipedian put in the effort to do so. In the meantime, the articles themselves are mostly in-universe fancruft and clearly need to be worked on, but those are arguments for ''improving'' the articles, not deleting them (per  and ). So for now I'd suggest the redirect, a solution which strikes me as the best of both worlds and will preserve the edit history in case anyone ever wants to take a go and improving them in the future. Besides which, these character names are searchable terms, so a redirect to the list makes sense anyway
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard (WP:HEY||WP:RUBBISH||WP:NEGLECT)