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The result was Withdrawn. There were two "delete"s, but they were added before the sources prompting the withdrawal were provided. Sandstein 20:39, 4 April 2020 (UTC)reply
The lede is almost entirely unsourced
WP:OR, and the one source in the lede is just an example of usage. The rest of the article is just a list of example usages. I spent a fair amount of time searching for good sources, but can't find any. There's certainly lots of stuff out there that uses the phrase "poster child" in passing, but I can't find anything that discusses it as a topic, which is what we need for a
WP:BCA. Suggest this be turned into a soft redirect to
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poster_child --
RoySmith(talk) 02:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Withdrawn. See my more specific comments down below. --
RoySmith(talk) 15:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep per
WP:BEFORE. There's lots of periodical articles about the concept. I would not oppose a soft redirect.
Bearian (
talk) 23:22, 23 March 2020 (UTC)reply
If you can provide a few references, I'd be happy to look at them. --
RoySmith(talk) 00:10, 24 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:NOTDICT. I would support a soft redirect to wiktionary as Roy suggests. —
Wug·a·po·des 19:44, 27 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanztalk 03:11, 28 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete Clearly a case of original research. The sources do not discuss the generic concept of poster child but simply give examples from which the author(s) derive their own definition.
Glendoremus (
talk) 18:36, 28 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep I assisted at an
editathon recently which was specifically about such posters. I am quite sure that they are the subject of study because we had speakers lecturing about them. For an example of detailed coverage of the specific concept of the poster child, see
The Making of Poster Children.
Q.E.D.Andrew🐉(
talk) 19:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Thanks for finding that. It's certainly a much better source than what I've seen previously. If you (or
Bearian) can come up with one or two more like that, I'd be happy to withdraw my nomination. --
RoySmith(talk) 19:41, 29 March 2020 (UTC)reply
I used +"history" for my search terms.
Bearian (
talk) 12:36, 31 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Thank you for that. The Longmore and Smart books are the best of those, going into some detail about the origin of the term. The Morgan-Owens and Nielsen books seem like just more examples. The article still needs work to improve the sourcing, but based on these, and the source found by QED above, I'm withdrawing my nomination. --
RoySmith(talk) 15:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)reply
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