Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gentle zits


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  10:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Gentle zits

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Appears to be non-notable fiction-cruft that fails WP:GNG. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 23:45, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. L3X1  ◊distænt write◊  01:58, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * It would be best to first write an article about the story itself and then merge the info about gentle zits into it. — Kpalion(talk) 08:11, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


 * delete I'll have to go back and take a look at the Kandel translation of The Cyberiad, but I don't even recall this, and there's no reference to the particular story within the book. (our article on it, BTW, is terrible.) Mangoe (talk) 20:13, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, finally got to it. The story in question is the first one in the book, and the zits are particularly mentioned as something the machine gets rid of: "gentle zits" is one phrase in the Kandel translation, and every other time, they are just "zits". There's really no point in an article on them because (a) they're just a prop in the story, and it doesn't matter what they (or the gruncheons and the pritons, which also go in for more than one mention) are, and (b) Kandel's job as a translator of all of Lem's Polish wordplay was, often enough, simply to write the thing over from scratch, so that I'm told that the poem about a haircut with all words beginning with the letter S is in fact a completely different poem on a different subject using a different letter in every language. Mangoe (talk) 02:59, 4 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - I agree with Kpalion above that without an article on the actual short story, this article about an item within that story has little validity. However the article has a possibly notable factual statement. I cannot find access to the sources in the article claiming that the "gentle zits" concept has been studied by Polish linguists. If that is confirmed to be true, it can be discussed at Stanislaw Lem or someplace similar, with sources. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 15:26, 3 April 2018 (UTC)


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