Oldak Quill wrote: But in this specific instance, the [[Speedball (comics)]] article breaks the fourth wall quite well. There's a section on publication history before his "fictional biography" and a couple of sections later on about other media he's appeared in. And even in the case of a hypothetical article that's nothing but "fictional" content, I agree that the article is incomplete but strongly disagree with the notion that the way to fix it is to delete the fictional stuff. Just add the real world context stuff instead. Not as quick and easy a solution, but better for Wikipedia in the long term (which is the only term I think is significant).

Oldak Quill wrote: And I'm sorry I assumed it, since on rereading your post I don't actually see any indication of it. At the origin of this thread people were suggesting deleting all Marvel Comics character articles without exception and starting them over again, which kind of polarizes the debate into extreme camps. :)