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I think you may have misread it. I favor nuking the current list article because it would be much easier to start again from a nucleus of the two score or so characters who have their own articles than to trim down a list of 500, most of whom are the novelistic equivalent of "extras". The full list
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Thank you for the clarification. I do agree with you that there's no reason in the world that the full list as-is can't be transwikied over to Wikia. However, we certainly don't need consensus here to do that. Piotr, or whoever else is interested in copying the list over, can do so at any time.
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Bergren was a prison guard?
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