Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enola; or, Her fatal mistake


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 21:02, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Enola; or, Her fatal mistake

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No evidence found of WP:GNG or WP:NBOOK. An obscure book written by an non-notable author, with only trivial mentions in bibliographies (e.g., ), and (possibly apocryphal, Wikipedia inventions or citogenesis) mentions of indirectly inspiring the name of the mother of the guy who named the Enola Gay. Even if being the namesake of Enola Gay Tibbets is true, notability is not inherited, and any salient details of this entire non-notable novel can be summarized in a footnote in Tibbets or the Enola Gay article. --Animalparty! (talk) 05:11, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 05:28, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. This is NOTINHERITED at second- or even third-hand. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:18, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, does not meet WP:NBOOK, no reviews found on this book, presently an interesting footnote in the Enola Gay article but even that statement is unsubstantiated (that Tibbet's mother had been named after the heroine of a novel), and the addition of the note appears to be conjecture - "Enola; or Her fatal mistake(sic) (1886), by Mary Young Ridenbaugh is the only novel of the period to use "Enola".". Coolabahapple (talk) 15:13, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Tibbets states in his book that his mother was named after the heroine of a 19th century novel, but did not know what the novel was. The reference to the book was added to the Enola Gay article in a footnote by in 2010 . The possibility of citogenesis makes it hard to verify with reliable sources now.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:14, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Is Tibbets' even a reliable source on the reason his mother was named Enola? He may have assumed this without ever being told. Even if his mother told him this, she was not the one who chose her name. For all we know this is a conceit his mother developed at some point after her birth, and her parents chose the name for other reasons. I do not thin either way it would make this book notable. Even if the plane was named directly from the book, that would not make the book notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:46, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete when your one claim to fame is inspiring the name of something indirectly because the thing was named after a person named in a way affected by the work your have zero claims to fame at all. Not every book published before 1900 is default notable. That is the only criteria that would make this notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:43, 4 January 2021 (UTC)


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