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The result was keep. Tawker (talk) 07:04, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fat Bastard (character) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Unsourced, no evidence that the article meets WP:GNG. eh bien mon prince (talk) 23:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:32, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment. I'm not yet decided if I think Fat Bastard needs his own article, or if there's enough room for him at List of Austin Powers characters, but it may be worth noting that a GScholar search of <"fat bastard" "austin powers"> yields almost 100 hits, including some that (based on the excerpts in the search results) may discuss this character as some sort of archetype or exemplar for various purposes. Possibly worth a look. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:40, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The article can use sourcing certainly, but the nominator seems to forget WP:NRVE... IE: Notability is dependent upon coverage being available and not upon use in an article. In looking, it is easy to find Fat Bastard covered directly and in detail in sources such as Time Magazine, Today, iVillage, Buzzfeed, Us, and Empire, is referenced in multiple books,[1][2] is now an action figure and heck... the fictional character has even been honored by having a wine named after him.[3] Why not source the article to serve our readers rather than delete? Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 17:44, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This character doesn't deserve its own article, the examples you found are rather trivial, nothing that could not be discussed in the List of Austin Powers characters.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 04:23, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What you suggest as a solution might have been a reason for a non-controversial redirect and merge (not a reason for deletion), only IF the target would not be overwhelmed by that solution. Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 19:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, meets GNG. Even were this not notable, it woudln't take an AfD result to merge. --j⚛e decker^talk 16:36, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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