Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American comic book industry timeline


 * 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.

The result was   delete. Courcelles 23:08, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

American comic book industry timeline

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 * There is no stated basis for inclusion of items here: Some are quantifiable firsts, others are pure POV and undue weight.
 * Aside from the theoretically fixable problems tagged on the article page, there are many speculative "probably" phrases and suppositions that may be endemic to any such timeline of this particular subject, which has variables as to even what constitutes a "comic book", as well as much fancruft minutiae.
 * Given that we have prose articles that give the history of comic books in context with referencing, this timeline, with its intrinsic problems, is not needed. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:46, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as a WP:CONTENTFORK redundant with American_comic_book, but riddled with original research and undue weight as described by the nominator. Already covered with better referencing and context. (Note: nominator is unfamiliar with AFD processes, but is navigating the bureaucracy in good faith by moving from PROD to AFD. Give him a break.) :) Shooterwalker (talk) 22:21, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 23:14, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 23:14, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep A timeline or chronology is a sensible and standard part of a reference work, as we see in the The World Encyclopedia of Comics, for example, which contains a "Chronology of Comic Art from the 18th Century to the Present". Deciding what to include in such a chronology is an ordinary editorial decision which is no different to the decisions required when writing a prose history.  Complaints about OR just seem to be the routine issues found in most of our articles and American_comic_book is no exception as its section on The Modern Age seems quite debatable and is unsupported by any sources.  Our editing policy is to work on such issues over time rather than to peremptorily delete. Warden (talk) 11:41, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: No evidence that the topic exist outside of the article. All content appears to be original research by synthesis at best, with no indication that the subject meets the general notability guideline by itself. As mentioned by others, the article is an unreferenced content fork that has no notability supported by reliable secondary sources, so it should be deleted. Jfgslo (talk) 14:24, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: agree this is a content fork that's composed of original research with no independent notability. Dzlife (talk) 13:43, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as a WP:CONTENTFORK. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:09, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 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.