Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dust if you must


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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 22:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Dust if you must

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I found no coverage for this poem. Fails WP:N. SL93 (talk) 12:15, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:53, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Weak delete. We have two issues here: one is that there is nothing reliable out there that confirms that Rose Mulligan is the author. Of the sites and places this poem is listed, many list the poem as being written by an anonymous author. Of the ones that do list Mulligan, quite a few attribute the factoid to Wikipedia. If by some chance this is kept, the poem should be listed as being an anonymous one rather than by Mulligan, as we have zero proof as to her authorship. Now that aside, there is also the issue with reliable sources. The article and the argument on the talk page tries to argue that this poem has been listed on several pages, but the issue is that being put on various pages doesn't always guarantee notability as far as Wikipedia is considered. A good many of these sites are your run of the mill blogs that wouldn't count towards notability and the rest aren't really the sort that we'd consider to be a RS. If anything, they'd be considered to be a primary source more than anything else. Now part of the issue I've come across with sources is that I can see where this has been printed, but being reprinted isn't always a guarantee of notability. I could find where it was posted in a few papers such as the Victorian Advocate and in a few books, but I can't find any actual analysis of this poem in reliable sources. I'm going to say that this should be deleted because there aren't that many reprintings of this or in any way that would really show that the poem is anything than a cute thing someone found online. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   18:29, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar   &middot;   &middot;  15:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete Notability has not been established, and Wikipedia is not just a scrapbook of links to cute poems someone found somewhere. Edison (talk) 19:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
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