Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lesbian non fiction


 * 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 redirect to Lesbian fiction. For now. Consensus is that the articles in this area need reorganizing; but this can be done non-editorially e.g. as proposed by Lankiveil. Once that's done, this content can be merged from the history, subject to consensus, to wherever it fits.  Sandstein  08:41, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Lesbian non fiction

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"Lesbian non fiction" is not a properly defined subject. Apparently, it is supposed to mean non-fiction books dealing with lesbianism - but there seems to be no real rationale for such an article, any more than there would be a rationale for starting "Chinese non-fiction" as an article about non-fiction books dealing with subjects related to China. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:23, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * This, for the record, was created by an editor whose username matches the name of one of the few authors actually listed in this laughably incomplete article — thus igniting my definite suspicion that her intent was to promote her book rather than to write a genuinely encyclopedic article about the topic. I have posted a request at WP:LGBT to have this merged with lesbian fiction into an expanded article on lesbian literature (which currently exists only as a redirect to the fiction article, as if non-fiction weren't also literature), to properly parallel our article on gay male literature, which properly covers both the fiction and non-fiction aspects. I don't have enough expertise in the subject area to do it myself without some assistance — about all I could really do is cut and paste this piece of crap, and then add a small handful of Canadian lesbians I've read — but I still think the most appropriate solution here is to merge into an article on lesbian literature. Bearcat (talk) 04:21, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Agree with Bearcat that this and Lesbian Fiction should be a Merge into lesbian literature ABF99 (talk) 05:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. Something of note is that back in 2013 there was a discussion of making one general LGBT article on fiction, though. I'm sort of undecided on this. There's the possibility of it being redundant to other articles if we keep it separate, but I'm hesitating slightly because fiction and non-fiction are sometimes handled differently in how they're written and covered. If we had an article on LGBT non-fiction, I'd support a merge there over a merge to an article about fiction, to be honest. But since we don't have one, this would have to be written from scratch. Anyone interested? I've never really written something like this before so I'm not sure how to get started, but I can help look for sources and with writing once someone gives me a specific part of the article to work on. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:47, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:19, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:19, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 08:00, 19 September 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:13, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as promo Article creator appears to have severe WP:COI with regard to the book most extensively discussed within days of that book's release (via Kindle). There is no legit article here as there is no information sourced to an RS discussing lesbian non-fiction. And as such, there is also no content to be merged. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:04, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Ideally, what I'd like to see happen would be to move Lesbian fiction to Lesbian literature, and then redirect this article to Lesbian literature. There doesn't seem to be enough content to justify having separate entries for fiction and non-fiction at the moment.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 06:09, 4 October 2015 (UTC).


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