Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Sexton Blake Library

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The result was Withdrawn. OnlyFixingProse (talk) 09:53, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Sexton Blake Library

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Fails notability guidelines and written like resume. OnlyFixingProse (talk) 04:25, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:41, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep deletion rationale makes no sense, no evidence of WP:BEFORE, and one of several similarly unusual deletion nominations by a new editor. Jclemens (talk) 07:57, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose deletion. Sexton Blake Lee was a key character in popular fiction in the early 20th century. The Sexton Blake Library was a highly popular British Boy's Story Paper that ran from 1915 to 1968. Stories in were the basis of films and radio plays. I have added three references to the Further reading section that attest to this.

Turner, ES (1948) Boys Will be Boys History of British boys' weeklies from Victorian times up to the 1950s.

Andrew, Lucy (2017) The Boy Detective in Early British Children's Literature. Palgrave. page 96

Watt & Green (2017) The Alternative Sherlock Holmes: Pastiches, Parodies and Copies Nml25 (talk) 08:57, 27 March 2022 (UTC) Nml25 (talk) 09:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC) Nml25 (talk) 09:08, 27 March 2022 (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.