Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Love of Three Oranges (Dad's Army)


 * 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. At the moment there is simply no consensus to delete, but the article needs a lot of work to prevent another AfD in the future. – sgeureka t•c 08:09, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

The Love of Three Oranges (Dad's Army)

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A search for reliable, secondary sources reveals an insufficient amount of significant coverage. This article fails Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Neelix (talk) 19:17, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - We seem to have an article on every Dad's Army episode; for the sake of continuity, I would suggest that this is kept (unless you propose we delete all of the episodes). Furthermore, Dad's Army is a very notable British TV series, so it seems an article on the episodes would be appropriate. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 19:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep There is a perfectly good source here, for example. Warden (talk) 20:13, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:41, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep The article current consists mainly of plot details and consideration of a redirect to List_of_Dad%27s_Army_episodes would be in order. Looking at this entry we have a ref to "McCann, (2001), p.247"; i.e. McCann, Graham (2001). Dad's Army: The story of a classic television show. Fourth Estate. It does appear to have had sufficient coverage to be notable. Edgepedia (talk) 12:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete as nominator - The existence of two potential sources does not constitute significant coverage. The notability of a subject is not determined by the existence of other similar articles. For example, some Smallville episodes are sufficiently notable to justify their own articles, but the vast majority are not. Just because some aren't sufficiently notable doesn't mean that the articles about the notable episodes should be deleted. In the case of this episode of Dad's Army, the general notability guideline is not satisfied. Neelix (talk) 14:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * To avoid confusion I've struck through this !vote, because as nominator, you've already !voted. postdlf (talk) 22:09, 23 October 2011 (UTC)


 *  Delete fails WP:GNG by lacking sources. Stuartyeates (talk)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Rcsprinter  (converse)  20:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Dad's Army is easliy one of the most popular UK sitcoms and as such has a number of books published on it. Only three days ago I picked one up with episode listings and details, unfortunately I don't have it to hand, I'll look for it tomorrow. Someoneanother 22:17, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep: Judging from the title of this news report from The Guardian, this show is notable. To quote a portion from the report: Croft's long-running partnership with Jimmy Perry spawned Dad's Army, arguably the most successful British sitcom of all time. Originally aired between 1968 and 1977, it remains one of BBC2's most popular shows even today. Pmresource (talk) 22:49, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep It does lack referneces, but is well written enough to possibly keep with the adition of citations, even if it must be merged into another article it should not be simply deleted.
 * 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.