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Had a game last night. My friend ran Space Wolves. At one point I reduced a unit from 6 models to one model in a single shooting phase. He then used the Stratagem Lone Wolf on the remaining model. By the strategy that model gains some abilities stats, and the character keyword. Here is the question: Does he stop being a part of his unit now that he is a character and character do not join units? Does the lone figure still take a moral check (in this case with a plus six to the roll?
We simply decided not to have him do so. The game was casual and my sisters were destroying him anyway, and he would have had to spend the extra 2 CP to make him stay, making the stratagem way too expensive for any benefits. I found nothing in the rules covering either side, so suspect he should have, but then again their is the character thing. What do you think?
RAW seems he would, limiting the stratagems use. RAI seems to me to be he becomes a heroic LONE wolf who no longer needs nor belongs to units.

There's no general rule that says CHARACTERS don't take Morale tests - it's just normally impossible for them to do so because they're only one model! But units of CHARACTERS do exist (Celestine and her pals) and, barring a specific exemption, they follow all the normal rules.

So yes, as far as I can tell, the Lone Wolf has to test for Morale if he hulks up in the same turn that his unit was decimated. Thankfully, you don't actually have to use the stratagem at the end of the same phase that happens: you can use it at the end of any phase, as long as there's a lone survivor still hanging around. So your opponent should have waited until the end of the Morale phase before triggering it, once any running away was sorted out.

Good point, ThommyH, appreciate it. We also have decided nothing negates the morale check. The issue seemed aggravated because he started in a large unit rather than the 5 man more typical of games.

Yes, the unit will still have to take a morale check.