Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holly (Red Dwarf)

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The result was keep, in light of the sourcing provided by BennyOnTheLoose. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 01:04, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Holly (Red Dwarf)

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Long plot summary and next to no relevance to the real world. No reception, no analysis, just a brief section on actors who played that role. My BEFORE yielded nothing useful (character's generic name does not help...). Per WP:ATD-R, this could be soft deleted by redirecting to List of Red Dwarf characters. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:10, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, Television, and United Kingdom. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:10, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Powers, Tom (2016). Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television: An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood has a decent amount of coverage. There is also some background in Howarth, Chris (1993) Red Dwarf: Programme Guide. Red Dwarf Smegazine (April 1992) has an interview with Hayridge. There are also briefer mentions in Tobert Llewellyns' autobiogrpahy; Dessau, Bruce (1992) Red Dwarf; Nazzaro, Joe (1994) The Making of Red Dwarf; and in some other issues of Red Dwarf Smegazine. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:05, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@BennyOnTheLoose Could you add a few sentences to the article, and cite these sources there? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:02, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. Found another source mentioned in the Powers book, but I'm not sure if I can get hold of it: Helford, Elyce Rae. "Reading Masculinities in the 'Post-Patriarchal' Space of Red Dwarf." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction 64 (1995): 20–31. .Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 09:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The index entries for Hilly and Holly in Powers are: Hilly 109, 113, 116; Holly 35, 108–9, 111–13, 115–19, 126, 130, 133, 137–38, 145, 251–52. Howarth pages 40-43 are about Holly specifically and there are other mentions in that book. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:02, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@BennyOnTheLoose Thanks for the edits. Can we add a reception or analysis section? Because right now it seems all we have is just some commentary on different actors playing that role. The article "Reading Masculinities in the 'Post-Patriarchal' Space of Red Dwarf" seems to be on ProQuest, and that's should be easy to get through WP:The Wikipedia Library. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:06, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep with sufficient sources identified by BennyOnTheLoose to meet WP:GNG and WP:NFILMCHAR. RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:38, 14 March 2025 (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.