Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northey Brothers

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The result was delete. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:32, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Northey Brothers

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The “Northey Brothers” are the subject of a single story from an 1891 volume of ghost stories. This story purports to have been told to the author by an anonymous source (hence the author admits the name “Northey” is fictional). I can find no evidence in any secondary source asserting why this particular story is notable. LuckyLouie (talk) 14:11, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. LuckyLouie (talk) 14:11, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mythology-related deletion discussions. LuckyLouie (talk) 14:11, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. This is nothing but a brief synopsis of a single story from a book. There is absolutely no assertion in the article as to why this particular anecdote has any notability whatsoever, and there do not appear to be any additional sources that would provide notability. Its a rather implausible search term, so a redirect to the author's article would not make sense. Rorshacma (talk) 15:59, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I was surprised to see this at AfD as I put it up for PROD a couple of hours previously, but whatever the reason for that was, definitely delete as non notable and lacking secondary sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccapra (talk • contribs)
Delete for the reasons given above. But it looks like a deletion nom bot today already republished it word for word here: https://en.everybodywiki.com/Northey_Brothers. Don't know if that's going to be permanent, but the bot from Deletionpedia may also eventually publish it. No win situation, bots are slowly assuming control. 5Q5|^✉ 16:37, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Gosh darn it, I love good ghostie stories, but each mention does not get a Wikipedia page. Sorry. Sgerbic (talk) 22:52, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, It is just a few lines , not an article, an essay, . . . Alex-h (talk) 16:43, 24 June 2019 (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.