Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Little Man (The Pink Panther)

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The result was merge‎ to List of The Pink Panther characters. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:10, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Little Man (The Pink Panther)

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This article only consists of one section of pure in-universe information. There is only one single reference, in the lead, that confirms that he is considered the main antagonist in The Pink Panther franchise. Grapesoda22 (talk) 01:25, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Grapesoda22 (talk) 01:25, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete/Redirect There is only a single reference in the article and it does not meet WP:GNG. FlutterDash344 (talk) 02:01, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of The Pink Panther characters. I concur the article fails to estabilish GNG. My BEFORE doesn't suggest this can be fixed easily, and the relatively generic name is not helping here. Nom is nonetheles reminded that they should report on their BEFORE first. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:55, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Comics and animation. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:56, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think we're borderline on WP:GNG, but we can do a relatively complete merge to List of The Pink Panther characters. Also known as "The Little White Guy", "Big Nose", or just "Friz", after the artist, most of what's in the article seems to be verifiable to the following two sources.
1. Source in the article (Pink Panther: The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town!) does seem to have sigcov spread out over many pages, as DK published sources often do, including the introduction of a voice for the character, the work the of the artist establishing the characters while timing actions to music, and a lot of snippets of the characters relationship with the Pink Panther.
2. There's some amount in Think Pink: The Story of DePatie-Freleng, including the fact that the character is loosely based on Frelang. [1][2][3]

—siro χ o 05:27, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books on this page all seem to mention The Little Man at least in passing, I haven't had the time to go thru them. 1 Does that help with WP:GNG? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:48, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
With Google Books and internet archive I couldn't find a "solid" GNG. Other sources did all seem to be in passing. The two sources I listed aren't bad at all, I'd personally feel comfortable verifying the article we have and letting it sit for future editors to expand as more sources are found. But, I'm not confident we wouldn't end up back here in a few months, which is why I am leaning toward the relatively complete merge. —siro χ o 05:53, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/Redirect due to insufficient WP:SIGCOV. It's unclear what should be WP:PRESERVEd but that can be accomplished through editing. Shooterwalker (talk) 21:24, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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