Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)
That a very few pre-wiki pre-internet sources are searchable online of a 27-year-old pilot episode, allows reasonble expectation that others exist and is completely within the meaning and intenet of . Not searchable online... but in libraries or subscription only archives. They exist. Period. And need not to be brought forward because a nom '''demands''' them of any editor who disagrees with him. Since I have that reasonable presumption that they exist, as evidenced by the few that are still searchable, it is now up to the nom to prove they do not. The nom now has the burden to convince me and all editors that the episode was never reviewed. He has the burden to prove that media ignored the episode and the stars and the event of it first airing. The New York Times and Boston Globe are indicators that others '''did''' indeed review it. His dismissive argument is akin to someone asserting that dinosaurs did not exist because all one can can look in the present is meatless old bones. Sorry. No sale. The Times and the Globe are the bones... and proof enough, even in their meatless state to show that the beast at one time shook the earth. That's a given. And as long as you wish to bandy about , let's all look at it together, shall we? "'''If a subject has met the general notability guideline, there is no need to show continual coverage or interest in the topic''', though subjects that do not meet the guideline at one point in time may do so as time passes and more sources come into existence. However, articles should not be written based on speculation that the topic may receive additional coverage in the future." Nothing in this article is written upon speculation of the future, but only is sound understanding of its 27-year-old past. No one has to jump through your hoop as you decide that something that at one time had coverage does not any more
— User:MichaelQSchmidt, 06:30, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NTEMP||WP:NTEMP (Wikipedia:Notability)