Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Family life in literature


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 18:04, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Family life in literature

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A thematic list of works that is undefined and is not a prominent literary concern, thus development of it would be WP:OR. It is not an article that receives much attention see stats.grok.se, and could potentially include just almost every novel or other piece of literature ever created and could be subdivided to include almost any other genre, since the family is a core unit within which society functions. I would recommend deletion from both a Wikipedia perspective, and as someone familiar with literary criticism. The scope of this type of list, would be better suited with expansion of articles like Family saga or Family drama which both have more established definitions in conversations and treat the "family" as a topic. As both a Wikipedian and a literary scholar, I have to highly recommend the deletion of this, at current, arbitrary list, Sadads (talk) 15:58, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete&mdash;There exists a reasonable number of nonfiction works on family life in literature, and if that topic was found to be notable then the list might be reconstituted along those lines. As it stands now, however, the list of literary titles that do not involve families is likely to be much smaller than those that do.  Without some WP:RS to provide focus, deletion is the best option here.  Lesser Cartographies (talk) 07:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * This would be rescoped and title in another way then, as in "Bibliography of scholarship about family life". But none of the constituant items right now are non-fiction, Sadads (talk) 16:33, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 16:01, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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