Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Green Grass Don't Grow On White Snow


 * 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. Grand master  ka  05:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Green Grass Don't Grow On White Snow
poetry book written last year by redlinked poet. Ingvaldsen+"Green grass" gives six non wiki google hits none of them about this book. only things linking here are two redirects with different capitalisations - otherwise an orphan. delete.  BL Lacertae -  kiss the lizard  01:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This fails to assert it's importance, also it only has 1 hit on Yahoo, and I am not even sure if it is about the book.—— Eagle (ask me for help) 05:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable book by non-notable poet. The Yahoo hit is a Wikipedia mirror. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 07:03, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable orphan. SB_Johnny  | talk 10:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable, nn. Øyvind Ingvaldsen himself doesn't have an article on Norwegian wiki.    Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   10:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete: As Stephen Spender said, "Writing a poem and waiting for a response is like dropping a rose petal down a well and waiting for a splash."  Poets don't get a lot of attention.  That leaves us in really dire straits if we want to tell the famous from the vain, so the requirement of the article to offer verification is even more vital with poets.  In this case, we can find no trace of author or book, and the title is such an obvious metaphor that the contents of the book aren't very promising.  Geogre 14:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: And that's if we take things very seriously.  The name of the poet sounds like a joke, and the title is a pretty danged idiomatic one for someone getting translated.  Norwegian has "funny" double negatives?  (The whole thing looks like a basic joke.)  Geogre 14:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. &mdash; Khoikhoi 18:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete nn rootology 18:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete with the caveat that we may restore it in a few years. I'd direct the reader to this site which may by Øyvind Ingvaldsen's user page. With luck this work of poetry will win the The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and later the The Nordic Council's Literature Prize. Poets should be encouraged! Øyvind, when you achieve recognition in a few years I'd be honored if you'd let me write your article and return this entry about your seminal work. Best wishes Williamborg (Bill) 21:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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