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Who is the person who, like Gil, bounces between various jobs, but seem to own noiseland arcade, as evidenced in one episode where he was showcasing Donkey Kong (but nobody turned up)...? Simply south 22:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I belive he's called "Wiseguy" in most sources, and is referred to as "Raphael" by Sideshow Bob in one episode. --OZOO (What?) 08:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

New guideline on fiction: Delete Simpsons-related articles?

I would like to call the attention of members of this project to the recently revised guideline at WP:FICT, which now states that all sub-articles on fictional subjects must independently meet a new (stricter) notability ruling than what was in place prior to the new guideline. If enforced, the new guideline would likely result in the deletion and/or merging of hundreds of articles on fictional subjects, such as fictional characters, television episodes, fictional locations, etc. There is active discussion / disagreement related to this issue at Misplaced Pages talk:Notability (fiction), and in the interests of ensuring the topic is fully discussed by interested editors, I would invite members of this project to participate in that discussion (whether you agree with the new guideline or not). Fairsing 22:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Well we merged all of the poor quality character and location pages, and as we have proved, we can get any episode that has been released on a season boxset DVD up to GA level in about an hour or so. And with articles like Homer Simpson and Troy McClure we have proved we can write our exisiting characer articles in an out of universe way. Gran 22:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

These new guidelines have me worried. Our 40+ GAs meet them and can't be touched (yet), but the other 360+ Simpsons episodes are fair game and I would not be surprised if many of them were targeted for deletion/merging soon enough. As for the characters, under the guidelines, Groundskeeper Willie is safe, but the page for Marge could conceivably be deleted because it has little real world context. All I know is that I don't like them and we should do what we can to get every page we can up to code. One of the few good things is that Simpsons articles will likely not be high on the target list due to out many GAs, but give it time and they will come. -- Scorpion 22:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Although I think that some may get merged, such as Kent Brockman, I am going to make sure that at least the articles about the Simpson family themselves don't get merged or deleted, since they are the main characters in the show. Karrmann 00:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

To be honest, with the episodes, as long as we keep the first 9 seasons, I won't mind. The fact is all episodes after then, even if they are on DVD, will be pretty hard to get to GA, for the main reason that they suck. There wil be hardly any reception info, andthe BBC and Richmond sources won't cover them. But we'll see what happens. Gran 06:21, 31 August 2007 (UTC)