Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comedy of errors


 * 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 redirect to The Comedy of Errors. (non-admin closure) f  e  minist  11:16, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Comedy of errors

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The article is a stub that has never advanced beyond WP:OR since its creation. It purports to describe an ancient genre, although it fails to discuss its development. The majority of examples given are unreferenced modern trivia. The two references given in the lead apply to individual plays and do not establish that such a genre exists. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 10:32, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2017 May 25.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 07:21, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Confirming that it seems to be corrected. —  Paleo  Neonate  — 07:26, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been mentioned at User talk:Chachob. —  Paleo  Neonate  — 07:29, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been mentioned at Talk:Comedy of errors. —  Paleo  Neonate  — 07:31, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Theatre-related deletion discussions. —  Paleo  Neonate  — 07:34, 25 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment: The article is not an orphan (Special:WhatLinksHere/Comedy of errors), cleanup may be required if it is deleted (or it may be sign of notability). — Paleo  Neonate  — 07:41, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the article on Shakespeare's play, which from a quick random look at the pages linking to this one seems to be a more plausible destination for many of those links. Per the article, the term itself appears to be an alternative name for a farce (and that article may also be a sensible redirection, more so if the play didn't exist). Any information contained here not within the article on farces should be merged that way. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 09:27, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the Shakespeare play. There's no material beyond Wiktionary for this as a general term. Power~enwiki (talk) 19:13, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect without further ado. This would be a dictdef at best.  The existing article appears to regard 'comedy of errors' as a theatrical genre.  The non-Shakespeare stuff here is not worth retaining.  --Lockley (talk) 02:21, 30 May 2017 (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.