Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Is the Law the Thing?


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 10:01, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Is the Law the Thing?

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Contested prod. Original research. Analysis of a work by Jacques Lacan, only Lacan has never produced any work titled Is the Law the Thing? Delete.  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 01:31, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Actually, it's a single sentence from Lacan. Lacan himself didn't necessarily intend to be understood, so this essay appears to be in accord with Lacan's wishes. No references, an apparently original essay and analysis.  Acroterion  (talk)  01:44, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Purely original research by one editor.  Such a detailed exegesis may well have value in a different forum, but not on WP. (FWIW, Lacan really is genuinely difficult and profound, and work along these lines is needed to unpack his writing... such work is published places that are not encyclopedias).  LotLE × talk  02:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Interesting piece to be sure, and perhaps worthy of being stored in his userspace, but not encyclopedic per WP:OR et al. I do hope the author sticks around though; if he wrote that himself, he could be a valuable editor/contributor. Zelse81 (talk) 02:34, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Original research. Policy is No original research. Tangurena (talk) 20:47, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.