Deletion of List of stock characters in comedy

Comment: and '''Tag'''. I believe the majority of WP articles have at least one cleanup tag (it seems like it, at least); many have 2 or more. There is no question that this article needs improvement, but that is no reason to delete what is otherwise a valid subject of study. Tag this article for  and ; maybe we could get this added to ikiProject Film|WikiProject Film
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:CITE||WP:W)

Comment: There certainly are "stock characters" in comedy and other forms of fiction. I disagree strongly with the nominator's claim "If references were found, it still wouldn't be worthy of inclusion" as being contrary to the Wikipedia notions of |notability being established via |reliable sources. That said, the article as it exists is weakly sourced and contains much |original research. Considerable research would need to be done to bring it up to standards
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:R||WP:OR)

Comment: The lists are almost entirely |OR, but if there was a chance of finding sources for this I would be arguing to keep. While the topic is interesting, and a lot of work has gone into it, my concern is that there is ultimately nothing solid backing it up that would enable it to transcend one editor's insightful, but nonetheless subjective analysis. Per , it would not be sufficient for these articles to provide a series of references to individual characters unless those references themselves explicitly referred to the characters as archetypes/stock-characters (and even this would still, arguably, be problematic). An alternative approach would be to use a list of archetypes from a particularly notable, |reliable source, but this would almost certainly require reworking the articles nearly from scratch
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:SYN||WP:RS)

Comment: if sources to prove that these are indeed stock characters, then merge into main article, if they cannot '''Delete all''' the articles due to |lack of references or proof of notability. &nbsp
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)