Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Cat
I think the idea of a Procedural close has merit - in this case, it would be because this sounds essentially like a Merge discussion, which does not require an AFD. I can find no evidence of a previous merge discussion at Tom and Jerry, nor do I see one at any of the character articles, and  - per , we really should have gone that route first. I agree that there's a lot of uncited material here, and much of it is probably original research. But before we go and delete these articles, including several (like Tom himself) that have obvious notability, I think we need to have a proper merge discussion that has no seven-day time frame, and that does not include the threat of deletion. A procedural close would not bias consensus on individual articles, if they came to AFD later on. It looks like the nomination is in order, so far as adding so many other articles goes, but the articles differ wildly in notability - and it's hard to say that they all should be kept, deleted, or what have you. It would be easier to discuss and evaluate if the nominations were separate, or at least more separate (two or three at a time, for example
— User:Ultraexactzz, 23:04, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BEFORE (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)