Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dates in Harry Potter (second nomination)
First, I hate it when a DRV is done without notifying the person(s) who tagged the article for deletion (speedy in this case), so that they too can present their rationale for doing so. Secondly, there were some rather incorrect statements in the deletion review, like the argument that it was deleted because it was OR (which was only one of the arguments,  being the most important), or arguments like "First of all, primary sources in this case are Rowling's original writing, not the novels based on that writing. " This has to be a new one: the manuscript is the primary source, when it is printed, it becomes a secondary source? I don't think so... Anyway, on to the current article: it has two parts, a timeline (i.e. a plot summary, but in a less useful form for those who haven't read the books and thus most need a plot summary: so a good canidate to get rid off under ), and a discussion of the timeline and how it was compiled. This shifts the discussion to another question: is the timeline in any way notable? It has been published, yes, but it hasn't been the subject of any reliable secondary sources. While there have been many, many reviews of the Harry Potter books, their success, the authors, the movies, the actors, ..., I don't think there has been any review, criticism, or other reliable independent secondary source about this timeline (as the article states, it is commonly used by the fandom, and I don't think that the Harry Potter Lexicon can be considered a reliable source in the Wikipedia sense). So there are two problems now: Wikipedia doesn't want the timeline itself as an article (for  and similar guidemine arguments like ), and it doesn't want an article ''about'' the timeline (as there are no secondary sources about it). The best solution is to delete this article, and add a link to the timeline as an external link to the main Harry Potter pages
— User:Fram, 07:39, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:NOT||WP:NOT||WP:WAF (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)