Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comics and Sequential Art

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The result was keep. In addition to the close, I also want to note substantial cleanup by Curly Turkey. Thank you. j⚛e decker ^talk 07:47, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comics and Sequential Art[edit]

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Largely summary (that is, plot) and is long-unreferenced. Both external links are dead. Claims to be well-regarded by notable individuals, but offers no references. Claims to be referenced by another book, but offers no references. Mikeblas (talk) 16:19, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:44, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:44, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:44, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The present article is fairly ghastly, but I am left wondering about the quality of the nominator's WP:BEFORE. The book was apparently not aimed at the academic market, but a GScholar search on the book's author shows over 600 citations of the book, and apparently an additional 400 of a Portuguese translation - I find the book's notability effectively undeniable. Though if the article is not improved during the course of this AfD, I would have no objection to stubbing the article back to its first and third paragraphs and the infobox (and not very much to redirecting it to the author) pending re-expansion into a properly sourced article concentrating on its influence. PWilkinson (talk) 21:26, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep: the first formalist work on comics in the English language, the one that introduced the term "sequential art"? You have to be joking! Curly Turkey ⚞¡gobble!⚟ 20:54, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above responses. BOZ (talk) 11:38, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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