Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Sandman: Brief Lives


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The result was Keep.  Citi Cat   ♫ 16:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The Sandman: Brief Lives

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Delete - prod removed with a WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS rationale. The article fails WP:PLOT, being little more than a plot summary of the book with no reliable sources indocating any real-world notability for the storyline. The fact that other articles exist for other Sandman stories is not relevant to this AFD. Otto4711 18:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep article is a broken-out plot summary per WP:SUMMARY of a section that would be too large to fit in the main article, The Sandman (Vertigo). Real-world notability of the series is more than established in the main article. JulesH 19:12, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The notability of the overall series does not mean that every individual story arc is inherently notable. There must be sources establishing the real-world notability of this particular arc. See for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Green Lantern: Power of Ion. Green Lantern is unquestionably notable but the particular story arc was not and so was deleted. Otto4711 19:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't read The Sandman, but as I understand it, it has a single unified plot arc, whereas Green Lantern is a long-running comic with several completely independent story arcs. This makes the situation somewhat different to the one in that AFD. JulesH 12:20, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep, summary. Mathmo Talk 00:05, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, summary seems analogous to a TV episode article, only a little bit better because it actually includes several issues. Cool Hand Luke 08:21, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and add more real-world context (which I know exists; The Sandman Companion, already listed in the article's References section, is one possible resource, as are the interviews in Hanging Out with the Dream King. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 23:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


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