Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silent Three

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. –MuZemike 06:10, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Silent Three

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Sources are very thin on the ground here. Not at all sure about notability, but as I know very little about this subject I thought that I'd bring it here to se what you people think. Theresa Knott | token threats 20:05, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
• Delete. Move. (See rationale for vote change below.) Unable to find any references. Scott P. (talk) 00:04, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment I clicked on the Google Books link above and immediately found what appears to be a chapter on them in a book [1] which is a good start and that was just the work of moments. (Emperor (talk) 17:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC))
• CSD as patent nonsense. --EEMIV (talk) 06:02, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
  • I did speedy it but then changed my mind and brought it here because of the comment on the talk page (which I urge everyone to read). Theresa Knott | token threats 09:26, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
• Comment this article has been vandalised a number of times and I have restored the version to the way it was before this took place - it is unwise to base an AfD on an article that has been deliberately made into a mess. (Emperor (talk) 17:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC))
• Keep as this BBC documentary explains "School Friend refreshed the traditions of boarding school tales in girls' story papers and ushered in a new era of comics for girls. The million-selling first issue cover, which was illustrated by Evelyn Flinders, featured The Silent Three at St Kit's, sleuthing in their capes and cowls." Sharksaredangerous (talk) 18:52, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
• Comment. I decided to change my recommendation from delete to move for the following reasons: The un-repaired vandalism was somewhat misleading. Before the vandalism repairs, the idea of "crime solving assassins" just seemed a bit too wacky for me! I'm glad someone fixed this. After doing a bit of Googling, it seems that a search for the terms: "school friend" comics turns up 66,000 apparently very relevent hits. A Google search for the terms: "silent three" joan peggy betty turns up only 73 hits. I suggest renaming the article to the more widely known name: "School Friend (comic book series)" and fleshing it out with both some info regarding the comic book series and the info regarding the Silent Three. (Note: It turns out that there is already an article in Wikipedia called School Friends (novel series). This article is about an apparently unrelated novel series currently being written and published.).Scott P. (talk) 22:06, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Worth noting that the proposed disambiguation isn't appropriate, following WP:NCC. The right location would be School Friend (comics). It is an option I'd certainly favour - with comics anthologies it is going to be easier to prove notability for the comic than it would for individual stories (I was surprised someone had started an article on the story and not the title), so a move could lead to a more rounded article and if the section on the Silent Three was to get a lot more sources we could then look at splitting it off into its own article but, for now a move looks like the best idea. (Emperor (talk) 04:48, 31 December 2009 (UTC))
• Move to School Friend (comics), following my reasoning above. (Emperor (talk) 04:48, 31 December 2009 (UTC))
• Keep and rename and rewrite, per Sharksaredangerous, Scottperry, and Emperor. The magazine appears to be a notable topic after all. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 01:58, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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.