Deletion of Sam and Diane

Comment: Overcoverage" is not a valid reason to delete as our |editing policy is to preserve the best bits and that would mean merger, not deletion.  The topic is certainly notable; for example, see http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=m6mjuWXrqb8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA34 Full of secrets which explains that the courtship of Sam and Diane was quite influential in TV history
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Editing policy (WP:PRESERVE)

Comment: about as obvious a violation of #PLOT as you'll ever see, made doubly pointless since both characters already have articles, which cover much of the same material.  Kill it now before it catches on among fandom editors and we get articles for every pair of characters who ever made goo-goo eyes at each other in any work of fiction
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: Basically, they are well-covered in sources I provided and meets |notability guidelines, including , and Wikipedia:Verifiability#Notability (policy
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:GNG)

Comment: or '''merge''' elsewhere; the only valid complaint I see is that this maybe isn't the best division of the topic, which is not a deletion concern because the content belongs ''somewhere'' under whatever name, whether on the show itself or the characters, or as is. The only real deletion-related claim made above (the nominator certainly didn't make one) is , which is ridiculous to read as forbidding articles just because they contain plot or are about a notable plot narrative, and instead states merely that articles must be ''more than'' summaries of plot. Clearly this article provides plenty of well-referenced, real-world context in the form of development of the character relationship and critical reception. To dismiss that out of hand because of your opinion of The Way This Encyclopedia Should Be amounts to nothing more than 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTPLOT||WP:IDONTLIKEIT)