Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Child (Doctor Who audio)


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The result was   redirect to Doctor Who.  MBisanz  talk 01:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

The Child (Doctor Who audio)

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Article on a forth-coming Doctor Who audio drama. Does not appear to have been broadcast. Does not appear to be scheduled for broadcast. The only reference is to the creators of the work. I'm not finding any reliable sources on the anywhere in google. PROD removed. Creator appears to have created many articles by this production house. See also Articles for deletion/Animal (Doctor Who audio) (2nd nomination) Stuartyeates (talk) 02:41, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * May or may not be notable, but let's stay away from WP:GOOGLEHITS. It has not been broadcast because it hasn't yet been released. Coppaar  ( talk ) 02:48, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've changed "Does not appear to have been broadcast." to "Does not appear to be scheduled for broadcast." If that's the bit you have problems with. Not sure what the connection to google hits is. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:54, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This doesn't justify keeping it right now, but these audios do generally receive reviews in independent sources: Doctor Who Magazine, Starburst and SFX. I spent some of last night perusing random back issues and adding ==Critical reception== sections to a few of them.  But there seems to be a presumption from the stubmakers that every Big Finish audio is automatically worthy of an article, without any non-official citations, which is certainly difficult to justify.  The earlier deletion you referred to didn't stick - there is now an Animal (Doctor Who audio drama) again.   I'll see what I can do about putting reviews for that!  Morwen - Talk 07:56, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 19:25, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 19:25, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've been thinking about this for a few days, and I'm going to have to - reluctantly - come down on the side of deleting it. There is no secondary sources about this, or any other forthcoming Big Finishes at all.  The ones that have been released are marginal, as they get just barely enough reviews, but we really should be sourcing those better rather than creating all these speculative ones.   Look at our very poor article on Jubilee (audio drama), for example.  Morwen (Talk) 15:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Merging these into one article per series is an option that might work, there's definitely enough for series-level articles. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:46, 6 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 14:14, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Cheers, Riley   Huntley  02:22, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Doctor Who. May or may not be notable, but at this time it seems reasonable. TBrandley 03:12, 14 November 2012 (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.