Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teefr

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The result was Delete Not notable, with no sources for the claims made. --Stephen 04:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Teefr

Teefr (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

There are some ghits but no evidence of any RS coverage. The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette is owned by the author, so it's not independent. If there was a reliable source to confirm the claim it was "among the first novels ever published online in English" then it *might* be notable, but I doubt that. I've bundled the nn teddybear in this series

Theadore Rosebear (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) Travellingcari (talk) 17:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Scientizzle 16:33, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Clearly, this pretty much hinges on the claim of being "among the first novels ever published online in English", which I find a little hard to imagine. By late 1996 the internet was already pretty mainstream, and ebook publishers like Boson, Hard Shell, and Online Originals were gearing up. The LA Times recently wrote that "the Internet boomed with hundreds of amateur "hypertext novels" almost as early as the birth of the medium", and our own Hypertext fiction article supports this, with examples of online novels from 1987, and the first web novel from 1994. Of course, the Teefr article doesn't say it was the first, but was it truly among the first? That claim is fishy ay best, and at the very least not supported by any reliable sources that I could find. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:53, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Asserts no notability for novel itself. Claim of being an early novel published online would not make it notable even if it was verifiable. Dgf32 (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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