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The result was Redirect to Excession. Michig (talk) 09:33, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Other articles devoted to single characters from the Culture series have been merged with the pages devoted to their novel (specifically, those for Bora Horza Gorbuchul and Perosteck Balveda have been merged to Consider Phlebas), but they had significantly more content. As this page stands, I don't think that it could contribute more than a couple lines to that article. It's far too short, not referenced, and written entirely in-universe. Smith(talk) 20:33, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: Merge? Or not even worth doing so? --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 20:58, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If it were to be merged, I reckon the best way to so would be to have a characters section in Excession; doing so would require a lot more than just this one character. Smith(talk) 21:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment. I was ready to vote to delete, but it looks like there's some coverage in Google Books: [1] and [2]. I don't know if this is enough to write an article, or if this article should be merged and sources I found cited in the main article on the book. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:49, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but both of those cases seem to be plot summaries of the novel, and include the character's name in that regard without adding substantive analysis or, indeed, any other information that could realistically be added to the article. Smith(talk) 11:29, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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@Allthefoxes and NinjaRobotPirate: Any thoughts on a vote?

• Redirect to Excession. No independent notability, not enough content for a merge. Kolbasz (talk) 10:43, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete perhaps and redirect if needed as this may be applicable for the book, but it seems questionably notable and improvable as its own article. SwisterTwister talk 06:28, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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