Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Name Fan

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was no consensus; default to keep. Petros471 17:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Big Name Fan

• Delete. Unreferenced neologism. — Mike • 03:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as an in-use description dating back to 1959. References do need to be added ([1], [2]) however. Ziggurat 04:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Interestingly, the article is still listed as a stub. It should have a {{verify}} tag put on it before being nominated for deletion. A quick google search (which is not the end-all and be-all) provides verification. Agent 86 06:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if verifiable, otherwise delete. --Coredesat 10:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - No verifiable sources right now. Wickethewok 13:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment I've added some quick sources, including a journal article. There is also a reference in the book The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction [3], but I don't have a copy so cannot cite it definitively. Ziggurat 22:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - as Ziggurat said, a verifiable term in the fan community, probably older than each one of us. TheRealFennShysa 15:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Not a sufficiently meaningful or well-used phrase. -- GWO
• Delete. This is phrase that means a big-name fan, its constituent words. The article is a dictionary definition with some speculation and a few examples. —Centrx→talk 20:38, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete --->|Newyorktimescrossword 21:59, 21 June 2006 (UTC)|
• Keep - it's a specialized term in a number of distinct fandoms, so it's not correct to call it fancruft. (Although, it's probably more often used as BNF, rather than spelling it out. See SMOF (which is probably more crufty). — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 01:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - well-known and verifiable term in fannish circles. MikeWazowski 04:23, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Not only is is germane to the history of fandom(s), but it is also a very much in-use term that merits its own article, and not just for definition re Centrx. Hemsath 04:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This page was useful to me when i needed to know what 'BNF' stands for. Gabriel Roth 01:24, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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.