Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baby Train


 * 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   keep.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 00:31, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Baby Train

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Complete nonsense Staxringold talkcontribs 07:27, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep: How the heck is this nonsense? This is a popular urban legend that is covered by Snopes and many books. Joe Chill (talk) 01:18, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: I looked at the book source on the main page, it sites many local media stories about the urban legend  during several different points in time. Hence this looks notable to me. While it could be better sourced it seems to meat WP:N from what I see. Also a quick google search, "The Baby Train urban legend", gets a ton of hits, but not necessarily from reliable sourcesMATThematical (talk) 03:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Absolute Keep: Brunvand is the premire authority on urban folklore and he named a book after this legend. I can't believe this was even nominated. Czolgolz (talk) 17:30, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Not to be contrary, but I feel like I should note why I nominated this. It's a stubby article on a folk lore story (how many of those have articles?) which lists one solitary source. And it's written in very much the wrong tone for an encyclopedia. What defines notability for a story like this? Is every legend in that book notable enough for coverage? Staxringold talkcontribs 18:45, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * How many folklore stories have their own article? At least 166: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urban_legends I could suggest a lot of those other urban legend articles be deleted before baby train, which is quite well known in UL circles. I could reference a dozen books that mention the baby train, but I'm moving and my collection of urban legend books is in storage. Let's continue discussin this. Czolgolz (talk) 14:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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