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1211:, reworking this article to be a prose format instead of a list format would hopefully fix the redundancy issue that several of its most notable characters listed have their own separate pages, and as a list was also filled with bloat and poorly sourced characters that had to be removed. As Zxcvbnm said, "Just having a list like this seems... random". As a list this article is unsalvageable, but everyone on the AfD so far believes it's notable for its own page, so the next best option is to rework it into no longer being a list format so it doesn't sound so redundant. 720: 702: 768: 411: 390: 318: 225: 990: 421: 297: 207: 235: 176: 115: 49: 21: 1124:. Items on a list are not necessarily expected to be notable. Lists are a common method for collecting items that are part of a specific set of criteria but not notable enough for articles of their own. Regardless of what format this article uses, it's not appropriate to remove sourced items that are in fact part of the criteria. 1229:
As stated in the AfD, I don't think the article should be deleted, but it could be reorganized to talk more about the subject of representation in the show, not just listing out characters. This could easily be accomplished by expanding the prose parts, leaving the embedded list as part of the
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New article, well written and informative, no obvious copyvio concerns, interesting hook. Have to AGF as archive.org was blocking my access to the sources for spotchecks.
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I also support this as it will define the article in a better way than as a list. Plus the major LGBT characters can be expanded a bit more.
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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