Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hallowieners

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 was Delete - Yomangani^talk 12:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hallowieners

Verifiability concerns, see 1070 ghits. No assertion of notability. Contested prod. MER-C 13:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This is a strange and interesting case. A comic published by Mirage in 1989 (when TMNT was a breakout hit) would have been pretty notable. However, I can't find any evidence the thing was even ever actually published. Hallowieners +Mirage brings just a couple of WP articles and some unrelated stuff. "Ryan Brown" +Hallowieners brings just 3 results, 2 from Wikipedia and a 3rd from a forum post where the poster says they haven't been able to find the book but has seen art from it. Not necessarily a hoax, but maybe this got announced and even advertised and never released? Delete as unverifiable unless new info arises. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

It sounds familiar. I'm doing some looking - first thought is that it was 1990 instead of 1989 though. Robovski 00:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

• Sad deleteWell, the internet isn't probably going to solve this one. For something minor from before the internet, this isn't an unusual state of affairs. I suspect that the subject material is real, but either didn't get to production or only ran to at most a few issues (probably was just a one-off). The term "hallowieners" seems to be generally used as a term for kids trick-or-treating at Halloween, hence the other 1000+ ghits. So, this just doesn't seem notable, and hence should either be deleted or perhaps merged into the Mirage and/or the articles for the authors. Robovski 00:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Those doing verification searches, might take notice that the article title is more-than-likely misspelled. If this article was indeed written in good faith, the subject was more than likely spelled "Halloweiners." Now that I've pointed this out...I feel...rather ridiculous right now. Wavy G 05:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

  Actually, I had considered that. You get more relevant info with the spelling as it is in the article. Robovski 05:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

  Same here. The tiny shreds of evidence that do exist seem to support the Hallowieners spelling. Halloweiners +Mirage gets zero hits. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

  Interesting. BTW, this sounds like the sort of thing that would be covered on X-Entertainment.com. (Not that that would that be a reliable source, but it might be a good starting point.) Wavy G 13:43, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

  I tried searching Google Groups for the use of "Hallowieners" in Usenet newsgroups. The only occurrances that came up were in comic trade groups where someone had 1 issue for sale (most other comics listed had multiple issues). Perhaps, it can be concluded by this that it was only a one-issue comic, and as such, is probably not notable enough for an encyclopedia article (???). Wavy G

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.