Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korovyev

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.‎

The result was redirect to The Master and Margarita. Mojo Hand (talk) 01:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Korovyev

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There is not a single sentence in this article that does not run afoul of WP:NOTPLOT, so it violates WP:What Wikipedia is not, and it is sourced entirely to the book where this character originates. Per WP:PAGEDECIDE it should be redirected to The Master and Margarita. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Literature. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Did your BEFORE identify the Google Scholar sources? Can you review them if you haven't and comment on whether there's enough commentary for a standalone character article? Jclemens (talk) 22:51, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I did check google scholar before commenting this and found a lot of mentions in plot summaries but no analysis of the character enough for independent notability. There could be something in Russian but a quick check there found lots of plot summary, which does not help. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:02, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I found these two sources after a quick search in Google Scholar[1][2]. This is notable, but the page requires a complete rewrite. Kelob2678 (talk) 23:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. Polish article seems better than ru wiki, and is structuered in a reasonbly scholarly fashion, if anyone would like to translate some parts of it here (sources hopefully are reluable, I am too tired to translate cyryllic...). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:51, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to The Master and Margarita. Per above, this may be notable, but the current article is just a plot summary. Soft delete by redirecting is best. If this is rescued now, ping me per WP:HEY and I'll gladly revise my vote. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:52, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - This is a cute page, however, seems not sufficiently noteworthy to have a standalone. I support a redirect to The Master and Margarita per Piotrus. Kvinnen (talk) 16:37, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.