Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Great Unknown (A Series of Unfortunate Events)


 * 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--Ymblanter (talk) 09:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Great Unknown (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

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This article is about something mentioned briefly in a couple of books in A Series of Unfortunate Events. It is not relevant to any major storyline in the series, and large portions of the article are original research, as so little about the phenomenon is explained in the series. Six of the seven references in the article don't count, because they are primary sources and just explain bits of the plot. The other statements in the article — for instance, Widdershins supposedly referencing Plato, inferences made about an illustration in Chapter Fourteen and the Great Unknown's supposed relation to the Bombinating Beast — are unsourced, fancruft and original research. The topic is not notable because it seems only one reliable secondary source has ever mentioned it: an article in The Times (which I cannot access), which is used as the article's final reference.

There is no content in the article that is worth merging/including elsewhere; if this article is deleted, File:GreatUnknown.png should be too and the redirect pages Great Unknown and Great unknown should have their target page changed to The Great Unknown. — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 08:28, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 08:30, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 08:30, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2015 April 25.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 08:46, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom (and I'm reasonably certain uncontroversially).

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:39, 3 May 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 04:31, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of WP:GNG, only notable within the universe of the books. Keep this stuff at the fan wikis. --Animalparty-- (talk) 08:51, 10 May 2015 (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.