Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William E. Blake Collection of True Life Era Comics


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The result was delete. The sources mentioned by Josiah Rowe have not been added to the article. Sandstein 05:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

William E. Blake Collection of True Life Era Comics

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There is not enough reliable source material that is independent of William E. Blake Collection of True Life Era Comics for this article to meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Without such source material, the topic fails Notability. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 04:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - seems notable, but it is unsourced. --H| H irohisat  Talk 06:29, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, a subset of a library that itself has no article. Most university libraries have scads of special collections; it would be silly for us to try to keep track of them all. --Dhartung | Talk 07:03, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:RS and WP:N. Nen  yedi  • (Deeds•Talk) 13:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sources exist, they just need to be added to the article.  A quick Google search found this and this talking about the collection, and this referring to an essay by Blake on the subject.  Furthermore, it seems that that essay (and possibly the collection) was referenced in an article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, which is certainly a reliable source.  At the very least, this content should be merged into the article on Virginia Commonwealth University and an article on this genre of comics (which we don't seem to have).  However, I'd recommend that this article be kept, in part because this collection is likely to be used as a cited source in articles on this era of comics, and it would be sensible to enable editors to wikilink their citations to an article on the collection. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


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