Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Canley (talk) 12:22, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀

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Fails WP:GNG. ––– GMH MELBOURNE   TALK  14:56, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Entertainment and Nigeria. –––  GMH MELBOURNE   TALK  14:56, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:03, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. Can the nominator explain in more detail how this classic novel fails GNG? It was translated into English by Wole Soyinka! That alone probably satisfies WP:NBOOK#3. Anyway, here are three reliable sources to demonstrate notability: Journal of the African Literature Association (2014), "The Self and the Other in Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons" (2017), and International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature (2012). pburka (talk) 18:42, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Maybe them sources should be incorporated into the article (at the very least into external links) because when I did a google search I couldn't find anything that showed evidence of WP:SIGCOV. ––– GMH MELBOURNE   TALK  00:00, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * This was one of the first novels ever published in the Yorùbá language and was hugely influential because of that. It has never gone of out print. The lack of sources on Google speaks to how little international interest and investment there can be in literature written in indigenous African languages - even classics like this. You'll probably find more sources if you google the title of Soyinka's translation but it's more accurate to keep the wikipedia page name as the original Yorùbá title. Also if you look at the wiki page for the author Fágúnwà, you'll get a sense of his importance. Clarenicheall (talk) 11:42, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * It's also helpful to search for the title without diacritics. Please be diligent about your research before nominating articles for deletion in subject areas with which you're unfamiliar. Our goal should be to improve the encyclopedia. pburka (talk) 03:29, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep per the sources found by Pburka. Mccapra (talk) 19:13, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. For the nom, a tip: if a book has been translated, that alone suggests it's likely to be notable and that you may want to look deeper than a google search if nothing comes up for you. Even if it isn't translated by someone who won the Nobel Prize for literature. -- asilvering (talk) 02:46, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - just in case there is any questions. First books published in a major language almost by definition notable. Apart from the Nobel prize Elinruby (talk) 03:20, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

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