Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PVT Murphy's Law

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The result was redirect to Army Times. Sandstein 13:06, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

PVT Murphy's Law[edit]

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Not seeing the sort of coverage necessary to establish GNG. Best coverage is a passing mention and an article published in Soldiers, a trade journal, titled "PVT Murphy joins the Army", not enough imo. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:45, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 23:07, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 23:07, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 23:07, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: fails WP:GNG Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 23:21, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Army Times, the publication the strip appeared in, as it allows for searching, avoids recreation-due-to-redlink, and redirects are cheap. Please remember there are alternatives to deletion that can be done prior to AfD. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:33, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Bushranger it's not a clear redirect target as it's not mentioned at the target article and I see no reason why it should be. I'm more than capable of instituting bold redirects when they are actually merited. Adding a mention there will lend undue weight to a non-notable comic strip. If it's redirected without a mention, it will be deleted at RFD, more likely than not. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 23:46, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a mention there will lend undue weight to a non-notable comic strip. Saying "the magazine was known for publishing [strip]" is not undue weight. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:56, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

But there's no indication that the magazine was known for publishing it, just that it did publish it. If we listed every non-notable column that every paper published, articles on papers would become crufty, long, unwieldy. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 23:59, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Currently there are no sources provided other than an archived version of this comic strip's official site. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:21, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Army Times or a new article addressing military comic strips (like Terminal Lance). In its day PVT Murphy's Law was a well known comic strip in the Army Times which ran for years. It'd be odd for wikipedia not to mention this cultural phenomenon just because it was restricted to the military. Plenty of other comic strips (The Family Circus, etc.) get their own entries. That being said, there isn't much to say about it. So I think it should either be folded into a sub-section of the Army Times (the paper it appeared in for years) or we need a US military comic strip entry to handle both PVT Murphy's Law and Terminal Lance and whatever other comics might come in the future or be being overlooked now. Atfyfe (talk) 10:23, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I've yet to see any sources indicating that it actually was a "well known comic strip". Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:02, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Army Times As per above. Setreis (talk) 13:12, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to the specified target. Etzedek24 ^{(I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record)} 21:25, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Army Times - needs more RS to establish notability. Deathlibrarian (talk) 02:38, 5 January 2021 (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.