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The result was delete. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:10, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Golden and Silver Age of Comic Books

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The topic is covered by Golden Age of Comic Books and Silver Age of Comic Books, both of which have references. I'm not sure why this article was created, but a user with 1 edit submitted a giant essay and it stuck. If someone feels some of the content has any merit, then I think it should be merged into History of comics (an article which should have content but doesn't; compare to History of video games). I think the nominated article should be deleted, or at least merged into History of comics, though I am against merging any unreferenced content. Odie5533 (talk) 03:31, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect or Merge if the article is well sourced. Eduemoni ^↑talk↓ 03:50, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 05:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Initially I thought that some of the sourced material could be incorporated into the respective Golden Age of Comic Books and Silver Age of Comic Books articles. However, there doesn't appear to be much from reliable sources to merge. I'm not opposed to redirecting this to History of comics if the community desires. Gong show 08:46, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TBrandley ^{(what's up)} 02:56, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - This is a fork of Comic strip plus the two Age articles above. An undersourced essay, yes, but seemingly accurate despite the lack of references and certainly not "original research" in the Wikipedia sense. But a fork is a fork is a fork. Agreed that there isn't much if any sourced content to merge. Carrite (talk) 03:55, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this undersourced essay. Redirect might be okay, but there really isn't much of substance to merge. Doczilla _STOMP! 07:18, 13 February 2013 (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.