Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ernie (Sesame Street)
with Bert and Ernie. As others have noted, the pair is most notable as a duo, not on their own. Anecdotal evidence for this comes from reading their separate articles, which mentions their partner in almost every paragraph. The standalone articles seem to bend over backwards to find unique things about them, for, it seems to me, the express purpose of   creating retaining a . Case in point is :Category:Sesame Street Muppet characters, where the subjects must appear needlessly twice. Merging is necessary in order to replace the good content that was unnecessarily spun off. A similar problem exists with the Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse articles, where a  (''not'' Afd - that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tom_Cat happened already) to Tom and Jerry (characters) discussion should be opened. A good example to follow in all of this is Tyke (character) which redirects to Spike and Tyke (characters), (the "character" in the above 2 cases is only necessary due to the existence of the ''Tom and Jerry'' and ''Spike and Tyke'' series, which does not apply here). Abbott and Costello were also most notable as a duo, but deserve their separate articles because they were ''people'' who had real lives outside of their act, while here we are talking about puppets and cartoon characters, endearing as they may be
— User:StonyBrook, 13:31, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:REDUNDANTFORK||WP:MERGE (Wikipedia:Content forking)