Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Black Year

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The result of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 12:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Black Year[edit]

Only use of this term is found in a novel Telsa (talk) 08:25, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. My full reasoning is at Talk:The Black Year#Black Year? but in sum, we already have articles on Anglesey, Druid, and the main source Annals (Tacitus); and we have articles on Bernard Cornwell and his The Warlord Chronicles, in which novels the narrator refers to "That Black Year" and the author (in an afterword) refers to "the black year of AD60 when..". I think this is an honest confusion of these descriptions in Enemy of God with a real name used historically. However, once you take the name and Merlin's quest for treasures with which to repel Romans out, there's nothing in this article which we don't already cover. I did not turn it into a redirect because, as far as I can tell, this name is not used in history, so the redirect would be a sort of original research in itself. Telsa (talk) 08:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Telsa, including his reason not to redirect to another article. Google search shows lots of "2003 was a black year for <topic>" quotes, but none except this WP article indicate that it's used by historians to refer to 60 CE. Barno 17:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. I tend to agree with Telsa's reasoning, but the article could possibly also be moved, cleaned up, and NPOVed to something like Suetonius' attack on Anglesey. (PS: If her user page tells no lie, Telsa is female Wikipedian...) Quartier Latin1968 20:37, 12 May 2006 (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.