Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Rosewood (2nd nomination)
and improve. No delete. No merge. The last AFD was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Rosewood|"''The result was '''keep'''. A potential merger can be discussed elsewhere, but there is no consensus for deletion. –Juliancolton | Talk ''".  Okay, it was discussed by a few editors and then brought back here to AFD.  As we have no specific criteria for fictional characters, we instead look to existing guidelines and policies...  and . And while the current version has been is left unsourced, |notability requires only the existence of suitable independent, reliable sources, not their immediate citation... and we have a '''wealth''' of such for Billy in http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Billy+Rosewood%22&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1 News articles http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Billy+Rosewood%22 Books and even http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Billy+Rosewood%22 Google Scholar showing he has been and continues to be the subject of more than trivial commentary and analysis in numerous independent secondary reliable sources.  Were he a real person, |notability would not even be an issue. Sure, he's fictional, but Billy has far more significant and in-depth coverage than do some real-person notables, which can be used to expand and source the topic. And just as we have decent articles on Captain Kirk and Luke Skywalker, all that is required for fictional characters is work, and sorry... but I do not believe OEFFORT|a lack of effort on a notable and improvable topic is a decent reason to either delete or to merge
— User:MichaelQSchmidt, 21:45, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:GNG||WP:NRVE||WP:N||WP:NOEFFORT (Wikipedia:Verifiability)