Deletion of List of The Stand characters

Comment: or '''merge''' to The Stand, which currently has none of this information and so per  takes deletion off the table.  We really need to stop making AFD nominations in such circumstances.  There has been absolutely no talk page discussion on this list regarding trimming it down or merging (or indeed, ''any'' discussion), so no one has even bothered to try normal editing and discussion before jumping the deletion gun, not even after a prod attempt was disagreed with.  I don't question the nom's good faith here, but the use coercive procedures such as AFD to resolve editing issues before normal editing and discussion has even been attempted is one of the worst aspects of Wikipedia culture and probably one of the most discouraging to contributors
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:ATD)

Comment: We normally allow a list of characters for any sufficiently large fictional franchise--TV shows are normative, but series' of books are also handled similarly.  In this case, we have a grey area: one book, with both TV and graphic novel adaptations.  If we merge it to any one of the three articles (and the original novel makes the most sense), we risk losing the ability to discuss how certain characters differed in the various incarnations of the story.  Still, that is a more valid option, per  than deletion.  I'm not familiar with the story, so I can't comment on whether the character bios are too long vs. need to be trimmed, but I agree with the editor who made the break-out list that this length of prose would heavily unbalance the main article on the book
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:ATD)