Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cunt (novel)


 * 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 delete. TigerShark (talk) 00:24, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Cunt (novel)

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No indication of importance, no notable mentions (an article in the LRB reports that it's a book Home wrote and that's basically it), no citations for the last 7+ years, and the 'commentary' is more like a quasi-book report on Goodreads. Would delete per WP:NOT. Kazamzam (talk) 20:40, 8 July 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:01, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Kazamzam (talk) 20:40, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Thanks for inviting me to add to this discussion. All I can say is that I wouldn't have created the article if I hadn't found it worthy of inclusion. The fact that there seems to be little secondary material on the novel does not necessarily mean that this is going to stay that way. Wikipedia, as I understand it, is a forward-looking project. &lt;K F&gt;  14:37, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's probably fair to say we've become a lot less forward-looking, for better or worse, since this article was created in 2003. The argument that sources will exist in the future is generally thought to be unconvincing in deletion discussions (though, in the event such a prediction comes true, the article can always be restored with those new sources). – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:46, 16 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete. Needs some reviews from reliable sources to stay, or some independent discussion of its development and impact. Those are completely absent and a WP:BEFORE search failed to find anything substantial, just a few passing mentions in borderline sources. SpinningSpark 15:17, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * (Selectively) merge. The only substantial coverage in reliable sources I was able to find was this review by Chris Atton in Counterpoise. One or two more sources like that would probably be sufficient, but there doesn't seem to be anything; the Calcutt and Shepard book cited in the article seems (going off Google Books snippet view) to mention Home but not specifically Cunt. Still, the novel can certainly be covered in a sentence or two, citing Atton, at Stewart Home. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:21, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete/Redirect I wasn't able to find many refs that meet GNG; the article is also completely unsourced with OR. This ref is of the question; it covers the plagiarism controversies, and there's the line His latest novel, Cunt, had been turned down by numerous publishers--apparently for its title--until it found a home with the London-based radical publisher, Do-Not Press. Even then, a number of printers refused to print the book, again due to its title, but I am not sure how reliable it is or whether it's significant enough, so merging is problematic; the article's poor plot summary and OR also to me isn't the best for merging. So IMO redirecting or deleting is the best. VickKiang (talk) 00:44, 17 July 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.