Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rusty (fictional locomotive)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 05:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rusty (fictional locomotive)

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I'm not finding anything that indicates a WP:GNG pass. The two citations in the article are to a primary source fiction book in the series itself, and to a fansite that looks unreliable. A BEFORE search brings up fansites, blogs, wikis, sales sites, and other unreliable sources. I'm finding a lot of primary source books, and this does not appear to constitute significant coverage for this character. Previously PRODded by Piotrus and then deprodded by Andrew Davidson with a rationale that provides nothing helpful in determining notability. I'm not seeing a WP:GNG pass here. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:33, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:33, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:33, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:33, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:33, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Turns out Wikipedia had loads of TtTE content sourced mainly to the books and TV series themselves. Who knew? But yeah, I've also done a search and can't find anything beyond primary sources and passing mentions in press releases. YorkshireLad ✿ ^(talk) 17:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In terms of alternatives to deletion, btw, I'd suggest merging to List of Thomas & Friends narrow-gauge engines but there's really nothing to merge: the only bit that's not there is the "Prototype" section, and while in the recent AfD for Terence the Tractor the equivalent section was sourced, here it isn't. A redirect to List of Thomas & Friends narrow-gauge engines might be reasonable, though. YorkshireLad ✿ ^(talk) 17:56, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for above reasons, and a list of characters of TtTe should cover this. Balle010 (talk) 17:57, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Thomas & Friends narrow-gauge engines (and also maybe rename that article, surely there has to be a better title than something so ridiculously technical), this character fails WP:GNG. Devonian Wombat (talk) 01:01, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per above. And also support renaming the target. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:44, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- This sort of content would be more at home at a TtTE wiki, not here. I don't see any content that could be merged and I do not think the title would be a useful redirect. Reyk _YO! 07:59, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reyk, Actually that's a fair point: nobody's likely to type that in, and there's already a mention on the dab page. YorkshireLad ✿ ^(talk) 09:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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