Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Mice Squad


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The result was no consensus. (WP:NPASR). North America1000 05:59, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

The Mice Squad

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I'm having real problems establishing notability for this, though I did some clean up to try to keep it. Precleanup version with lots of red links = and not the newspaper links are just to the paper's homepages. Only a couple framed strips for sale on ebay.ca, this collectable listing with a few details and a couple sentences in a book prove it exists in my searching. Everything else appears to be Wikipedia mirrors. The artist is from Neelix's home province of Newfoundland (pop 500,000), suggesting maybe they know each other. Maybe the details are just OR? Anyway I don't think it passes GNG if no one says anything meaningful about it. Legacypac (talk) 07:31, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Gah, I don't know: would we expect other secondary sources to discuss a comic strip? Normally independent secondary sources are used to assess notability, but in this kind of situation it doesn't really work. Maybe an argument for keep is that it is syndicated across various media outlets, suggesting a wider readership - but it doesn't seem to fit in the normal WP:GNG guideline. JMWt (talk) 09:50, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  Human 3015   TALK    10:24, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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 * Looking at examples in comic strip like Blondie_(comic_strip) or Hägar_the_Horrible yes there are outside sources. I could not even prove the newspaper list or characters were correct. Maybe the author is a way to search? I found his name, strip name and a dead link here Legacypac (talk) 10:33, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sam Sailor Talk! 04:18, 24 November 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:45, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


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