Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugo Austin
These articles are unmaintainable, unverified and unverifiable. Orderinchaos and I have recently been trying to clean up some articles in this area but once you remove all the unverifiable fan stuff that sounds like a bad youth novel, you end up being able to say little other than "X is a character in Y tv show, portrayed by Z".  And then you have to deal with the steady influx of anons and accounts with few edits and all to this subject area, who return regularly to edit war over restoring the junk and refuse to respond to messages and attempts to explain why this material isn't suitable for Wikipedia. Having been looking at these articles in recent weeks and trying to progressively clean out the unverifiable junk, I honestly don't think there's enough verifiable information published by reliable sources to support individual articles about the characters. I would prefer to simply delete all and protect against recreation as necessary and then monitor for forks, but ''at the very most'' I think the names could become protected redirects to a central list of characters, but as noted above, a previous AFD (Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amanda_Vale) was closed in this way and some weeks later these users came back and recreated the articles and made forks to get around the protected redirects (see for example Aden Jefferies which was turned into a protected redirect so they recreated at Aden Jefferies (Home and Away) (now deleted), and Annie Campbell, protected redirect forked at Annie Campbell (fictional character) and I see we've now also got 'forks of forks' with Tony_Holden_(fictional_character) also at Tony Holden (Home and Away character) - this stuff really needs to be cleaned out). I have suggested several times to the people who keep restoring the storyline junk that if they find it useful information and they want to create a database of Home and Away content, they should take these articles and create their own fansite, even a Home and Away wiki like Lostpedia as the material has been released under the GFDL so they can do whatever they want with it as long as they credit where it came from, but |NOT everything belongs on Wikipedia and this is jsut not suitable for an encyclopedia and doesn't conform to our policies and guidelines. Beyond the very short stubs that Orderinchaos and I chopped a few of these down to, I don't think there's really a possibility of writing proper maintainable articles about these characters in way that would conform to policy and so I would really like us to have a clean up and delete all these articles and protect from recreation
— [[User talk:Sarah|Sarah]], 01:15, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)