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WHAT is? Giving users a chance to decide for themselves if they find an article useful or not? How are we doing this? By deleting it "per above" before they get a chance to have a look at it? I may have completely misunderstood your reason for voting delete; in that case, please enlighten me. I just
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Thought so, but then that would be a list/category by itself. Furthermore, there aren't many notable fictional heroes in real life wars, as fiction either doesn't present characters as war heroes, or takes place in alternate timelines. I think your proposed scope would be an ideal size, but I don't
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I agree with that. I can't think of how you could possibly reduce the scope of a general list of heroes. If we divide it, we'd just end up with a list of characters by game, movie, book, or whatever. I don't think a centralised list would work. At best, it could be a category, but that's still very
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Good point, although those characters are never referred to as war heroes in Star Wars. On the other hand, Anakin
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I'm not convinced that "large scope" is a valid reason for deletion. I'm also not swayed by the POV argument, as these are *fictional* people, so it only requires that the author create the person as a war hero. I'd support a better worded criteria on the page. If the page grows out of control,
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Admiral Piett. The LOTR characters (Aragon, Legolas, Gimili) were instrumental in the War of the Ring. The
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This is far too nebulous a subject for a page - fictional people in real historical wars? Fictional people in fictional wars - fantasy wars? If it has to exist at all as a research aid, better as a series of categories than a single page.
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