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For the record, the entry isn't listing awful characters, it's listing characters who are essentially good, if flawed, people. Which, I think Hareton qualifies for (albeit my understanding of the character comes from a friend who read the book.) He's apparently a jerk at first because of his intentionally damaging upbringing, but manages to improve himself and enter a loving relationship later on. Whether or not the readers agree, it seemed like the point was supposed to be that he was an essentially good person, and that Heathcliffe's attempt to raise him to be a brute like himself eventually failed for this reason.
Also, it seems like Nelly was deleted from the list specifically because of the troper's desire not to include Hareton, since the reason Hareton was included was because of the reason "If Nelly qualifies". So you could call it a "compromise," albeit rudely carried out.
Edited by OctoyaCommon knowledge entries should, in my view, be structured in a way where the "common knowledge" is stated, and then examples described wherein that common knowledge is refuted. Basically, "this is what is generally believed, but here's why that's not the case." The original entry kind of lists characters, without really saying why they're examples of this trope in action, so someone jumping in with a deletion, with a somewhat combative edit reason, looks impenetrable to a neutral onlooker. Are they just tilting at air, or does the deletion have merit and they just when about it badly? It's ambiguous enough that the entire entry could probably use a more extensive re-write.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

I think there's a minor edit war on the YMMV page
for Wuthering Heights.
Bennings
added a Common Knowledge entry about how it's "known" that all the characters are awful but only about half of them really are. (Never read the book myself, don't know anything about this.)
Bennings listed a few of these "awful" characters. caringguy
added a character named Hareton to the list, arguing he should be listed as awful if the character Nelly is, but Bennings deleted the addition with "No way in hell I'm giving you Hareton."
Edited by iamconstantine