The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing
Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed
Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) requirement.
WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant English-language coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar." It was deprodded with no helpful rationale (despite the fact that I explicitly asked for one in the PROD). Yet another example that PRODs are vulnerable to abuse. Let's discuss then - can anyone find anything to salvage this? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here02:02, 31 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep The character is well-established and covered in the Thomas & Friends Character Encyclopedia and there's plenty more sources to be found such as Experimental Entailments: The Case of Spatial Prepositions and Reproducing “Really Useful” Workers: Children's Television as an Ideological State Apparatus. Applicable policies include
WP:ATD;
WP:BEFORE;
WP:IMPERFECT;
WP:NEXIST;
WP:NOTPAPER;
WP:PRESERVE; &c.
Andrew🐉(
talk)
09:24, 31 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Weak delete or merge and admittedly allowing some special pleading, based on what I'm observing at similar AFDs. I just don't see the sources to support an article like this. The fiction is obviously very notable, and if you could even find a single source, it should be covered somewhere, and probably somewhere else. The
List of Thomas & Friends characters is in a sorry state, as are the linked / sub-articles. I suggest a merge because there's a shred of primary sourced material (not independent enough to support notability) that could be
WP:PRESERVED at a broader list. If there's a chance at making this better than a fandom wiki, it's to work on a better quality list.
Jontesta (
talk)
19:25, 4 August 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing
Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed
Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) requirement.
WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant English-language coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar." It was deprodded with no helpful rationale (despite the fact that I explicitly asked for one in the PROD). Yet another example that PRODs are vulnerable to abuse. Let's discuss then - can anyone find anything to salvage this? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here02:02, 31 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep The character is well-established and covered in the Thomas & Friends Character Encyclopedia and there's plenty more sources to be found such as Experimental Entailments: The Case of Spatial Prepositions and Reproducing “Really Useful” Workers: Children's Television as an Ideological State Apparatus. Applicable policies include
WP:ATD;
WP:BEFORE;
WP:IMPERFECT;
WP:NEXIST;
WP:NOTPAPER;
WP:PRESERVE; &c.
Andrew🐉(
talk)
09:24, 31 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Weak delete or merge and admittedly allowing some special pleading, based on what I'm observing at similar AFDs. I just don't see the sources to support an article like this. The fiction is obviously very notable, and if you could even find a single source, it should be covered somewhere, and probably somewhere else. The
List of Thomas & Friends characters is in a sorry state, as are the linked / sub-articles. I suggest a merge because there's a shred of primary sourced material (not independent enough to support notability) that could be
WP:PRESERVED at a broader list. If there's a chance at making this better than a fandom wiki, it's to work on a better quality list.
Jontesta (
talk)
19:25, 4 August 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.