Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comics archaeology

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The scope of this article is unclear, and the references are insufficient to present comics archaeology as a coherent subdiscipline. They are:

• A Bachelor's thesis; the author argues that analysing comic books can be a form of archaeological research.
• A general history of comics, cited for background. (I don't have access to the book, so can't check whether it has any information about archaeology.)
• A book chapter about the use of comics for public outreach during a preservation campaign.
• An archaeologist's reflections on his work, presented in comic-book format. gnu57 22:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. gnu57 22:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Archaeology-related deletion discussions. gnu57 22:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
• I think that I can make a shrewd guess as to what the thesis author was doing 25 days after the thesis publication date.

  As to the subject rather than the author, it is clearly resting solely upon that one thesis. Some quick research turns up an OUP book, {{ISBN|9780190917944}}, on comic book studies a.k.a. comics studies, that does not describe the field as archaeological, not even in the list of disciplines from art history to media studies in chapter 37. Nothing that I can find corroborates the idea. This is fairly clearly a violation of our no original research policy. Delete.

  Uncle G (talk) 00:13, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

• Delete incomprehensible WP:OR WP:COATRACK mess with no obvious purpose whatsoever. Dronebogus (talk) 00:27, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
• Delete I fail to see a link between the study of comics depicting archaeology and the archaeology of the comic medium, outside of similar words used in a different order to describe the two ideas. The first one lacks sources for a meaningful article, and the second is a fork of History of comics, among others. Argento Surfer (talk) 21:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
• Delete The link to archaeology makes no sense, and isn't supported by the sources. Chaddude (talk) 01:47, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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