Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zack Morris (Saved by the Bell)


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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn by the nominator. Just to clarify, I never made a clear position on whether the article should have been kept, deleted or redirected. (non-admin closure) Haleth (talk) 18:36, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Zack Morris (Saved by the Bell)
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 * Fails notability guidelines. Seeing reception section, only A.V. club is reliable while Screenrant and CBR are very weak as a source. As per WP:BEFORE, nothing valuable about the character can be found. OnlyFixingProse (talk) 12:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:51, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Keep: As the one who restored the article in the first place, I did so because I knew Zack had plenty of sources discussing him, and I found some. Screen Rant and CBR, while not as strong of a source as A.V. Club, are still reliable, unless they are being cited for exceptional claims or for BLPs (Zack Morris is a character), per WP:RSPSOURCES (which lists Screen Rant as such, and CBR is owned by the same company), especially for opinions pieces (WP:RSOPINION). Plus, here's an article by LA Times and another by Rolling Stone, as well as NPR and Thought Catalog. And this book, while I don't have access to it beyond the Google preview, seems to do a lot of discussion on Zack. Here's another book that discusses him. Zack Morris is a pretty iconic character, so I'm sure there's even more out there. Notability is clearly met here. MoonJet (talk) 04:04, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment OP, you sure about your WP:BEFORE results? A quick search and I found several stories about the character's in-universe exploits or real world commentary on the character, including Today, Scary Mommy, People, E Online, Vox, and Capital FM. I can see that Moonjet has cited additional sources not mentioned by me or covered in the article's prose at the time of writing. I haven't analyzed the sources in depth and I don't follow the TV franchise at all, but I get the impression that the character has left some sort of cultural impact and so deletion should not be an option to contemplate.. Haleth (talk) 04:09, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Withdraw. Oof. I guess its just a mobile stuff that I couldnt find reliable sources properly, so I decided to windraw this nomination. OnlyFixingProse (talk) 09:53, 26 April 2022 (UTC)


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