Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hill Valley (Back to the Future) (3rd nomination)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 14:35, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hill Valley (Back to the Future)

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Fictional location that lacks significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, as required by the WP:GNG. This is almost entirely unsourced or sourced to primary/promotional sources, including a DVD release, a board game, a licensed guide, and so on. There is one independent source that talks about the clock tower, but nothing sufficient to build out an entire article about the entire fictional town. A search reveals only passing mentions of this location, with no real world context to help this meet WP:WAF, WP:NOT#PLOT, or WP:NOTABILITY. Jontesta (talk) 19:27, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Jontesta (talk) 19:27, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Toughpigs (talk) 20:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. Toughpigs (talk) 20:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP. While the article in its current state needs some massive cleanup, the topic is notable. It's mentioned numerous times in The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films (2014), We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy (2015), this article on Back to the Future locations, an article about a town that temporarily changed its name to Hill Valley, and more. I think there's a bit of a WP:BEFORE fail here._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 20:31, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Zxcvbnm: I looked at this, including virtually leafing through some pages of the book on GBooks, and I am not convinced there is anything substantial here. The town is mentioned often enough, but I don't see any significant analysis. The second chapter of the book ([1]) does seem to have some promise, but the preview ends before I can make up my mind if the discussion the town is sufficient, or is it just an example of the fictional suburbia. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per the significant coverage in multiple reliable sources identified above as per WP:GNG which will enable the article to be improved so that deletion is unnecessary in my view,Atlantic306 (talk) 00:43, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per above. Timmccloud (talk) 15:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I added a Reception section with a critical reading from the book Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, which specifically discusses the town for four pages (pp 35-38). The previously mentioned The Worlds of Back to the Future has an entire chapter about the town (pp 49-61). — Toughpigs (talk) 21:58, 11 November 2020 (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.