Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional Scots
I can see the argument for fictional Jews being an encyclopaedic cross-categorisation - the influence of Shylock and Fagin has clearly reverberated through society to influence how people came to see Jews.  And you can't really describe them as being part of Jewish literature - quite the opposite! But the Jews are something of a special case. It's hard to argue that James Bond has had the same infuence on perceptions of Scottishness (or Swissness for that matter). In fact you could probably say that the main influence on such perceptions has been the treatment by artists of "real" Scots  such as Wallace, Macbeth and the Young Pretender. And I'd argue that they have no place in a list of fictional Scots, because they really did exist. So I wouldn't say it is a totally non-encyclopaedic cross-categorisation, but at best it's a very weakly encyclopaedic cross-categorisation - and that should be set against the facts that this list is very open-ended, a bit of a nightmare to maintain, and the function is already served by the category. There are also issues with defining "Scotland", particularly when you go back to Macbeth, a Pict who was brought up in an independent mormaerdom of Moray before seizing control of the "foreign" kingdom of Alba. Even then, he had tenuous control of the Borders and had the Highlands occupied by the Norse. I'd also suggest that assuming TV/film characters are Scottish based solely on their accent is tantamount to  unless they self-identify as Scots or the cameras show us their birth certificates
— User:Le, 19:33, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)