Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joker (character)
per , , , and  (which, ironically, should probably be merged). The Joker (comics) article, which is already sprawling, is entirely about the comic book version(s) of the character with passing mentions of the others, while the article under discussion here is about the character in general, and branches out with {{tl|Main}} to the comic book character article where needed, then presents a whole lot more information, about the TV series and film versions, among others (some of which are also potential stand-alone articles).  This is standard operating procedure when a multi-genre/multi-medium/multi-continuity fictional character article becomes long and unwieldy; we break it up into narrower presentations and connect them with a summary-style article. We do the same thing with franchises and works in them, TV series and their seasons and notable episodes, bands and their albums and singles, etc., etc.A similar approach should be taken with Batman and other such characters.  It seems that in many cases we have what should be, e.g., Batman (comics) at Batman, covering nothing but the comics in any detail, but not written in  style and making it hard for people to find the articles on the TV, film, etc., versions of the character, which are often what they're looking for (especially with regard to subjects of major motion picture franchises – the average WP readers probably knows more about and wants to know more about the filmic Batman and Joker than the comics ones).  The title Batman (with a redir from Batman (character) should go to a summary-style article on the character as a whole, split into concise sections that summarize and link with hatnotes to the main articles on the rather different Batman characters in various media/continuities.  The approach taken at Joker (character) is a good model and much better serves our reader needs than WikiProject Comics's controlling behavior toward treating the comics version of a character as somehow automatically the  topic, then minimizing navigability to related non-comics articles.  (I say that as someone with a collection of 15,000+ comics; I have nothing against the medium, only against / tendencies of wikiprojects. I've started plenty of wikiprojects, too, and have nothing against them, just against wiki-territorialism
— User:SMcCandlish, 03:35, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SUMMARY||WP:SPINOUT||WP:SPINOFF||WP:SPLIT||WP:PRIMARY||WP:OWN||WP:VESTED (Wikipedia:Summary style)