Talk:Drabble

This article was nominated for deletion on 15 February 2005. The result of the discussion was Delete.

55 Fiction was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 26 June 2012 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Drabble. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Other meanings of drabble[edit]

I understand that there was a previous article under this title that was deleted from Wikipedia. I don't know the content of that page, but to make knowledge the present version refers to real and veritable facts. There also seems to be a comic strip with the same name, so it might be useful to create Drabble (comic) as well. --Chino 04:26, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

So...

Maybe it's best it points to a disambig. page

—Preceding unsigned comment added by SwiftGeneration (talk • contribs) 17:20, 14 November 2006

The fiction-writing term is the most common meaning. A hatlink ("For the comic strip, see Drabble (comic)") at the top of the page is sufficient. —Lowellian (reply) 01:16, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Source of word "drabble"[edit]

So drabble has nothing to do with the English SF-fan Drunken Rabble Project (which emerged (I believe) from Beccon fandom duing the early 1980s ? --62.25.106.209 07:32, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

That was the title of a filk songbook, published sometime around 1990. The publisher is Beccon Publications. So there is a very indirect connection, but nothing significant. British SF fandom is small enough that everyone is pretty closely connect. There was also a British writer and broadcaster named Phil Drabble; I think he died a few years ago. All this seems Googleable. 88.110.243.55 12:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've always suspected that the Monty Python game was named after novelist Margaret Drabble, but I have no evidence of this. Daibhid C 19:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

An unsourced comment was added to Buxton

Lisa Drabble whom inspired Monty Python to create    
'The Drabble' - an extremely short work of fiction   
with exactly 100 words.

by User:Drabbinski. Any evidence for that Billlion 21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Drabble[edit]

I've dumped the ref to James Drabble, not only bcz it is unsupported by the ref its adding editor cited, and not only bcz the term probably comes from "drivel" (that which is deficient of meaning) and "dribble" (a pitifully small flow) and "drab" (unable to stimulate interest): the contributor has an unseemly interest in "James" and "Drabble", and vanity should be suspected. --Jerzy·t 28 June 2005 09:00 (UTC)

Less than a 1,000 words?[edit]

I was taught (and this is 30 odd years ago, mind) that a drabble was a short story of exactly 100 words, no more, no less. I talked to my father about this and he was taught the exact same thing during the 1950s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.22.113.222 (talk) 11:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax[edit]

Seems to me 'Drabble' is a hoax post. I've been reading about fiction for years and have never heard this term before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.120.202 (talk) 20:22, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the term is widely used at least in the context of fanfiction.217.141.200.62 (talk) 09:39, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. To 71.233.120.202: You've been reading fiction, not fanfiction. The term "drabble" is almost ubiquitous within online fanfiction communities. —Lowellian (reply) 01:08, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No Cites? Nonsense![edit]

Is it a bad program or a careless human that marks articles with bibliographies but no footnotes as having no citations? GeorgeTSLC (talk) 15:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion[edit]

At the moment the article is proposed for deletion. The word drabble is, due to ambiguity, unsearchable in the search engines as an idependet concept. However, "drabble fan fiction" gains 3,6 million Google hits and "drabble science fiction" earns 1,6 million hits. The article itself has references which establish the notability of this type of fiction, although more would always be better. I see no reason to delete the article. --Chino (talk) 12:09, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to agree that some content about the drabble should be retained, either as a separate article or as part of another article such as flash fiction. I've added a few reliable sources attesting to the existence of the genre, but it would certainly help to find more, especially reliable sources for the etymology and history of the term.--Arxiloxos (talk) 14:39, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The sources currently in the article seem to me to be sufficient to justify a separate article. I'm going to remove the merge and notability templates. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 03:55, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]