Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional actors (2nd nomination)
This fD reminds me quite a bit of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eco-terrorism in fiction, where the outcome was converting a list article that looked like Special:PermaLink/979987651|this into a prose article that looked like Special:PermaLink/991740265|this. Listing every time concept X appears in a work of fiction is something TV Tropes does; we should strive to write something ''about'' concept X in fiction, not just enumerate examples. This applies outside of fiction too, of course—it is the difference between writing the article Climate of London and creating the article list of rainy days in London. For a prose article like that, we want eliable sources with in-depth discussion of fictional actors ''as a group''. My  search turned up surprisingly few such sources, but it did at least lead me to this source: {{Cite journal|last=Esslin|first=Martin|date=1987|title=Actors Acting Actors|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/modern_drama/v030/30.1.esslin.html|journal=Modern Drama|language=en|volume=30|issue=1|pages=72–79|doi=10.1353/mdr.1987.0044|issn=1712-5286}} I would be in favour of converting this list article to a prose article as was done with Eco-terrorism in fiction, although unlike in that case it we would obviously need to change the title as well here to not be called "list of
— User:TompaDompa, 20:22, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:A||WP:R||WP:BEFORE (Wikipedia:Attribution)