- Read and understand the Wikipedia deletion policy (WP:DEL), which explains valid grounds for deletion. Some pages should be improved rather than deleted.
- Read the article and review its history to properly understand its topic. Some articles may have been harmed by vandalism or poor editing. Stubs and imperfect articles are awaiting further development, and so the potential of the topic should be considered.
- Read the article's talk page, which may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted; if there was a previous nomination, check that your objections haven't already been dealt with.
- Done. Talk page did not exisist prior
- Before nominating due to sourcing or notability concerns, make a good-faith attempt to confirm that such sources don't exist.
- Used ((Find sources 3|The Black Book Rebus Television)) and discovered no reasonable citable/sourcable lines to use.
- If the topic is not important enough to merit an article on its own, consider turning the page into a useful redirect to an existing article – something you can do yourself without opening an AfD case – or proposing it be merged (see ((merge to)) and ((merge from))). Uncontested mergers do not require an AfD.
- Rebus (TV series) does not seem to have any decent content for the individual episodes, therefore it would probably be better to clear the name location.
- If the article is not already tagged to note an existing problem, consider applying a tag, such as ((notability)), ((hoax)), ((original research)), ((unencyclopedic)), or ((advert)); this ensures readers are aware of the problem and may act to remedy it.
- No tags at the time of this writing, but I will put up Unreferenced and notability with a 30 day wait window to allow people to fix the article.
- Check "What links here" in the article's sidebar, to see how the page is used and referenced within Wikipedia.
- Linkages around the Rebus section and a link from the disambiguation page. Probably could stand to be unlinked
- Check any interlanguage links, also in the sidebar, which may provide additional material for translation.
- Familiarize yourself with the guidelines and policies on notability, reliable sources, and what Wikipedia is not. Related guidelines include WP:BIO, WP:COI, WP:CORP, WP:MUSIC, WP:WEB, and, for list articles, WP:CLN. For a list of policies and guidelines that can be useful in a deletion proposal, see Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates.
- Reviewed, but will hold in abayance for the 30 day window to demonstrate good will.
- If the article was recently created, please consider that many good articles started their Wikilife in pretty bad shape. Unless it is obviously a hopeless case, consider sharing your reservations with the article creator, an associated WikiProject, or on the article's talk page, and/or adding a cleanup tag, instead of bringing the article to AfD. If the article can be fixed through normal editing, then it is not a good candidate for AfD.
- Article was created on June 2nd and not been touched since then. Author's talk page reveals that they've been an editor since 2007 so they should know better about creating unsourced articles.
- Confirm that the article does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion or proposed deletion.
Hasteur (talk) 17:24, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
