Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of stock characters in comedy
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
— User:Debate, 06:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:OR||WP:SYN||WP:RS (Wikipedia:No original research)