Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dooby Duck's Disco Bus

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The result was withdrawn‎. – sgeureka ^t•c 07:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dooby Duck's Disco Bus

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Appears to fail WP:NTV and WP:GNG.

Opening an AfD instead of PROD or a redirect since it did run for a few years I felt it wouldn't be an uncontroversial delete/redirect.

However, if a satisfactory redirect could be found I would be comfortable with that. DonaldD23 talk to me 13:47, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Toys, and United Kingdom. DonaldD23 talk to me 13:47, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of BBC children's television programmes is a good place to redirect Dooby Duck's Disco Bus. Dwanyewest (talk) 14:15, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Opposed to deletion. Added 2 references, that can be transferred if the page is redirected; with this (from the BBC website). I would tend to think this could be kept, though.-My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 01:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Dwanyewest asked me to look for sources.
1. "Have duck — will travel?". The Journal. 1990-01-23. Archived from the original on 2024-08-15. Retrieved 2024-08-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  The article notes: "The BBC's Dooby Duck. currently starring on children's television and one of the panto stars at the Sunderland Empire, is certainly a busy little bird these days. His starring role with Les Dawson in the Empire's production of Jack and the Beans talk hasn't been his only panto engagement this Christmas. Dooby Duck is also appearing in London with Frank Bruno and Michael Barrymore in the Dominion Theatre's record-breaking run of Aladdin. That's not all. The high-flying TV duck is also starring at the Bristol Hippodrome with Su Pollard in Dick Whittington. Three pantomimes—admittedly hundreds of miles apart—would seem to be living dangerously. Will the real Dooby Duck stand up? Or should we tell the children? Dooby Duck is the creation of Roger Stevenson and Harry Stuart, two inventive puppeteers, based in Southport, who first hit the Big Time in 1978 ..."
2. "Christmas quackers". Manchester Evening News. 1990-12-20. Archived from the original on 2024-08-15. Retrieved 2024-08-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  The article notes: "With a waddle and a quack, Dooby Duck stepped out of the chorus and into the spotlight. Now, this Southport-born feathered super duck, is not only a hit with kids but also a cult with those old enough to know better. Dooby—one of the stars of this year's Manchester Palace pantomime—is the creation of Southport-based Roger Stevenson and his partner Harry Stuart. Dooby's first 13-part BBC TV series, Dooby Duck's Disco Bus, was such a success it has just been repeated, a second series has been recorded and starts in January and a third is being prepared. Roger, a Peter Pan-ish 48-year-old says: ... Until Dooby's success, Roger and Harry were known under the banner Pepe And Friends, a lively, full-stage puppet act that has graced TV, theatre and cabaret across the globe. They have been hits at several Royal Variety Shows, appeared in front of Mrs Thatcher at No. 10 and rubbed shoulders with the exotic Bluebell Girls."
3. "1993 Plays and Players article". Plays and Players. 1993. Retrieved 2024-08-15 – via Google Books.
  The article notes: "Dooby Duck and his Disco Friends, in fact, as operated by ace-puppeteers Roger Stevenson and Harry Stuart, impress far more than their human counterparts. The real centre of the show is Michael Barrymore's Wishee Washee, and such is the force of his centrifuge that everyone else in the show is ruthlessly hurled from his limelight. Barrymore is undoubtedly an accomplished and confident comedian and whether you find him as risible as the Black Death is beside the point. Here, he contorts his body magnificently, times his gags impeccably and establishes a rapport with the audience like their oldest pal. But there's a maleficent streak of racism in his unpleasant joshings with an imaginary Libyan in the audience and his line that he can't marry the Princess' handmaiden because she's 'deaf and dumb' is, at the most generous estimation, breathtakingly tactless. But the producers might argue that this kind of thing, along with the awful songs and general tawdriness, is as traditional as the Great British Banger. Couldn't the EC intervene?"
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Dooby Duck to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 08:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The sources focus on the "Dooby Duck" franchise, so the page could be renamed to Dooby Duck. Cunard (talk) 08:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I am even more convinced this should be kept now that Cunard has presented more sources. Thank you.-My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 11:48, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Sources listed above are enough for GNG. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 14:07, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep thanks to Cunard's sources. Toughpigs (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn due to sources identified by Cunard. DonaldD23 talk to me 17:37, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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