Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bananas (magazine)

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The result was redirect to R. L. Stine. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:03, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bananas (magazine)[edit]

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There is no indication that this magazine is notable. I could only find some trivial mentions about the magazine in articles and books about Stine. Fearstreetsaga (talk) 04:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Needs references and whatnot. Does not appear to be notable. LogicalCreator (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to R. L. Stine. There just isn't anything out there specifically about this magazine. It is mentioned several times, but always in passing in the various Stine related articles. I know that any article about the magazine will also mention Stine, but to show notability it would have to also focus on the magazine at some point in time which doesn't seem to be the case with any of the mentions out there. I would recommend redirecting to a bibliography for Stine, but it doesn't look like one exists at this point in time and for the most part this should just be a redirect with some of the information here merged into the article.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Stine per Tokyogirl. I remember this. i think these were mostly for the school market, so a somewhat insular product. I see they are collectable now, but aside from that, very little coverage to date. no prejudice against recreation if its later discovered to be the literary magazine of its day:)Mercurywoodrose (talk) 07:56, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:21, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/Redirect to R. L. Stine. The magazine seems to be primarily of historical interest due to Stine's association. It's where he spent the first 10 years of his career and launched what he is better known for, children's horror. Any book/article biography of Stine or Scholastic will mention/discuss the magazine. And there are at least half a dozen articles I could find that mention the magazine in the context of Stine. One might be able to make a case of inherited notability, since all the sources discuss the magazine in terms of Stine. However the article is so short and there are no apparent sources to expand it, might as well merge to Stine, until the history of Stine and Scholastic are published in a generation or two. For example it's easier to show notability for some obscure Victorian-era magazines I've worked on than more contemporary magazines because time has elapsed for sources to appear. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to R. L. Stine, the editor and primary contributor. Magazine isn't notable enough to warrant a separate article.--xanchester (t) 23:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect: to R. L. Stine per above. - Ret.Prof (talk) 16:58, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.