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- 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 no consensus. There has not been a major shift since the last closure which ended with it being relisted after a DRV discussion. Clearly, the "delete" side has a point when they argue that most of the entries on the list are sourced to novels or gamebooks, something that isn't independent sourcing. The "keep" side of the argument is that the list of items is a reasonable spin-off, and that some of the entries have been covered in independent secondary sourcing. (The latter argument is true for a few of the entries, but not most of them.)
With the community that has participated here equally divided, a "no consensus" is the usual outcome unless there is a violation of a core policy that mandates deletion (issues concerning the notability guidelines are handled on a case-by-case basis). I have looked at the policy, and the main issue is whether we have a violation of the "no original research" policy as most of the article is based on the novels. Yet, the content that is based on that is not analytic or synthesis and can therefore be based on primary sources. The few analytical parts of the article are the ones referenced to e.g. the article by Wolf. The No Original Research policy also forbids basing an article entirely on primary sources, something that this article comes close to doing, but while it is toeing the line, there are some secondary sources in the article as well, so it is probably not across the line. I am therefore closing this with the default outcome of no consensus. Sjakkalle (Check!) 17:25, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]