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The result was Keep, per references added during AFD. Davewild (talk) 18:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cabot Cove (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This article asserts no notability through reliable sources, and as such is just an in-universe repetition of plot elements from the Murder, Shoe Wrote TV show articles. As such, this material is not appropriate for the encyclopedia, is also entirely duplicative and can be safely deleted. Judgesurreal777 03:54, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Should be included in Murder, She Wrote (which it is). Not notable otherwise. - Rjd0060 04:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Per nom. Twenty Years 15:43, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• The murder capital of the world is not notable? Delete per bloodthirsty nom. Clarityfiend 16:22, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This fictional location has real-world notability. Here is an article about Cabot Cove from the New York Times which works out the town's murder rate. Mendocino is a tourist location because it is the place where Murder She Wrote was filmed. I will add the sources to the article. Bláthnaid 11:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep seems to have some real world references, not to mention the Cabot Cove name is used to draw in tourists to the Maine locale. RMHED (talk) 19:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still, that's a pretty thin amount of notability....I think we need a few more to withdraw, because most articles don't rest on only one reference, and if this is any indication, it may be possible to find more. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The book TV Towns that was in the "Further reading" section of the article before it was nominated for AfD has a profile of Cabot Cove, so that is two impeccable references. Since this programme aired from the 1980s to 1996, ie, pre mass internet, it is reasonable to assume that most of the sources that can be used are off-line or behind paywalls in newspaper archives, and difficult to get hold of within the short time-frame of an AfD. Bláthnaid 11:12, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw - Notability, in a limited fashion, has been established, though time will also judge if the article has a long term future. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:15, 8 December 2007 (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.