Deletion of Stan Smith (American Dad!)

Comment: no independent notability separate from American Dad!, lack of independent coverage, certainly no significant coverage. There is no specific guideline for fictional characters, so the  applies.  There may be some collateral help from  which has a section on derivative articles which says: ''While a book may be notable, it is not normally advisable to have a separate article on a character or thing from the book, and it is often the case that despite the book being manifestly notable, a derivative article from it is not. Exceptions do exist, especially in the case of very famous books. For example, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" clearly warrants a 'subarticle' on its protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge.''  What I get mostly on Stan Smith are youtube, imdb and other such directories, some blogging, episode out-takes, and tennis shoe advertisements. The only in-depth was http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/american-dad-stan/ ‘American Dad’ Episodes That Show The Evolution Of Stan Smith from uproxx, although its coverage of Stan Smith is not separate from American Dad!. Much of this Wikipedia article is already covered at American Dad!#Characters and List of American Dad! characters
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NBOOK)

Comment: This is one of a mass of nominations opened by this editor after being specifically warned that they needed to open merge requests ''before'' opening an AfD. I see no evidence that they've even remotely looked into doing this, so I'm leaning towards making this a procedural close due to a clear lack of 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)