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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage for this article to pass the Wikipedia:General notability guideline (nor the supporting Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) essay). Coverage mentions the series and the existence of the books, but without anything to say about the location other than plot summary. For people looking up the series, we can consider redirecting this to the author or one of his bibliography articles. Jontesta (talk) 20:14, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Jontesta (talk) 20:14, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Here are some sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:51, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lloyd, Daryl A., and Ian D. Greatbatch. "The search for Blandings". Journal of Maps 5.1 (2009): 126-133.
  • Cohen, Debra Rae. "The Place of the Pig: Blandings, Barsetshire and Britain". Middlebrow Wodehouse. Routledge, 2017. 105-122.
  • Wallace, Malcolm TV. "The Wodehouse World I: Classical Echoes." Cithara 12.2 (1973): 41.
  • Hall Jr, Robert A. "Valley Fields". Wodehouse.org.
  • Dean, Alan. "Blandings Castle; A Debt to Gertrude Jekyll." Notes & Queries 55.1 (2008).

• Keep: This is a well-studied and celebrated location in English fiction. I have a book by N.T.P. Murphy called "In Search of Blandings: Who's Really Who and What's Where -- The Facts Behind the Wodehouse Fiction" (1986). It includes a 19-page chapter on Blandings Castle, analyzing the location as described in the novels, and suggesting real-life models that Wodehouse may have used to inform his settings. This book is already cited in the article, as reference #4. It's surprising that the nominator missed this reference in their analysis. Toughpigs (talk) 23:17, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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