Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Newfoundland in fiction


 * 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. JForget 00:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Newfoundland in fiction

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At a recent requested move, User:Labattblueboy commented "The article extends beyond the traditional realm of fiction. Beyond that, the article contains no citation at all, screams of original research. A merger or an AfD are likely the best routes here". I have closed the Requested Move as opposed, and started this AfD.  Ron h jones (Talk) 00:37, 17 April 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, but the criterion for listing hee has to be not mention of Newfoundland, but it having a significant role in the plot or setting of a notable wok with an article in Wikipedia.  DGG ( talk ) 00:48, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * For the record, I don't get how "the article extends beyond the traditional realm of fiction"; there's not a single thing listed on it that isn't a work of fiction (a term which is inclusive of scripted television and film), so it's not extending so much as a quarter of an inch outside of what it says it is. Accordingly, I went to scope the edit history at WP:RM to see if I could find more information about what the proposed rename was and why it was opposed — and I can't find any indication that the nominator ever edited that page at all, or that User:Labattblueboy (who has edited that page in the past, but not recently and not pertaining to this page in any way) ever had anything to say about this particular article either. If the discussion took place somewhere other than WP:RM itself, then the nominator should have linked to the actual discussion instead of to WP:RM. And it's not original research to say that a work of fiction is set in Newfoundland if that fact can be objectively verified just by looking at the named work of fiction itself, either; it might be OR to speculate that a work of fiction set in a fictional place is based on Newfoundland, but it's in no way OR to say that The Shipping News and The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood are set there given that they're explicitly depicted as taking place in Newfoundland right in the work itself. That said, this kind of thing is usually handled by "X in fiction" categories rather than list articles (I'm not aware of too many other "Place in fiction" lists that haven't been crapcanned), so I'm not sure it's actually needed — but I would still like further clarification of the nomination rationale, because as written I'm just not seeing it. Bearcat (talk) 01:16, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak Keep Sources would be better, but I'm inclined to keep it. Hopefully, it can be improved at a later date, but as is, I still don't see why we would choose to lose this page of information. Outback the koala (talk) 07:56, 24 April 2010 (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.