Forum:Merging Articles on Unidentified Characters

There's currently close to 200 articles in Category:Unidentified individuals and its three sub-categories. While some of these characters are notable enough to warrant their own articles, I think we're going overboard in many cases ("Unidentified Death Eater (VI)," "Unidentified Gryffindor girl (VII)", etc.), and thus I think something needs to be done to reduce the clutter while retaining the useful information these articles present.

I propose we take a page from Memory Alpha's book and merge articles on unidentified characters into a series of larger "hub" articles. See the articles listed under Unnamed Starfleet personnel and Unnamed Vulcans on MA to get an idea of how this would work.

I'm thinking that our "hub" articles could be:
 * Unidentified Death Eaters
 * Unidentified goblins
 * Unidentified Hogwarts employees
 * Unidentified Hogwarts students
 * Unidentified Gryffindor students
 * Unidentified Hufflepuff students
 * Unidentified Ravenclaw students
 * Unidentified Slytherin students
 * Unidentified Muggles
 * Unidentified portraits
 * Unidentified witches and wizards

As to which unidentified characters would be merged, and which would keep their own articles, I'm thinking that, if we don't have any unique information (job, relation to a named character, etc.) by which to distinguish a character in the title of their article, then they get merged. So, "Mayor of London," "Owner of the Railview Hotel," etc. would be okay, because those titles apply to a specific person in the books/movies/games. But "Hufflepuff boy/girl" is a description that could apply to dozens of characters, so "Unidentified Hufflepuff boy," "Unidentified Hufflepuff girl (I)," "Unidentified Hufflepuff girl (II)," etc. would all be merged into "Unidentified Hufflepuff students." &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f (Owl me!) 16:38, July 5, 2010 (UTC)