Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of anarchist children's literature


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The result was delete. ST47 (talk) 04:43, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

List of anarchist children's literature

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"Anarchist children's literature", as a topic, has not been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources. (?) No such sourcing in the article, searches of major academic databases, or Google Books. czar 22:52, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  czar  22:52, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:57, 17 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete After reviewing the edit history, the attribution of certain books as anarchy related appears to be completely subjective and arbitrary. Graywalls (talk) 23:11, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * delete as just someone's (dubious) opinion. Mangoe (talk) 02:32, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per our anarchic policies WP:IAR and WP:NOTLAW. The nomination offers no evidence to support its assertions.  Here's some counter-examples:
 * Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature
 * New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations
 * Little Girls without Their Curls: Female Aggression in Victorian Children's Literature
 * Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness
 * Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States
 * Order and the literary rendering of chaos : children's literature as knowledge, order, and social foundation
 * Translation, Children’s Literature, and Lu Xun’s Intellectual Struggles
 * Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
 * Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
 * ‘No-one telling us what to do’: anarchist schools in Britain, 1890–1916
 * Andrew🐉(talk) 11:00, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Which of these establish "anarchist children's literature" as a recognized genre, and/or cite specific books as examples? I'm not seeing it in what you listed/linked to at all. postdlf (talk) 15:15, 18 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Not only is there a lack of sources discussing "anarchist children's literature", the actual content of this list is entirely WP:OR and so should not be kept regardless. The slew of sources listed by Andrew actually have little to nothing to do with this topic - "anarchist" means a very specific philosophy in the context of this article, and none of these sources appear to be discussing that.  They are simply about childrens' stories that go against established norms, which does not automatically make them about anarchy.  The only source he listed that actually seems to discuss the concept of anarchism in depth is the last one, which does not have anything to do with childrens' literature.  Rorshacma (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per . There is neither evidence of books that could be included in such a list nor evidence of the genre being sufficiently notable that it should get its own list.  (I'm amused by the suggestion currently present in the article that the entire genre of young adult fiction is representative of anarchist thought...) YorkshireLad  ✿  (talk) 20:26, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Does anyone take Andrew's comments seriously? No one denies that there are books for children with certain political viewpoints, but the list of search results above utterly fails to distinguish between leftism, radicalism, subversion, etc. from anarchism and fails to justify this list on Wikipedia. Reywas92Talk 03:43, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The nay-sayers seem to suppose that anarchism is some narrow doctrine or party. Our articles on the topic indicate that there are many definitions and schools of thought which include leftism, radicalism, subversion, and more.  Whatever label is chosen, there will naturally be synonyms and equivalent meanings.  There are clearly books of this sort such as A Rule is to Break. Andrew🐉(talk) 12:34, 21 October 2020 (UTC)comment


 * Delete- per Graywalls. Since the subject of "anarchist children's literature" isn't covered anywhere, attempts to compile lists of individual books in that class is inevitably subjective and original research. Reyk YO! 21:21, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete it's original research Spudlace (talk) 03:40, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom -- Devoke water   (talk)  11:15, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Going through the sources, this is clearly synthesis.  Dark knight  2149  06:06, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete not that there’s much left to delete at this point. If an anthology or other scholarship emerged, it could be recreated later but for now there’s not much to keep. Innisfree987 (talk) 06:34, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per norminator, subject hasn't received WP:SIGCOV. Duke of London (talk) 00:47, 25 October 2020 (UTC)


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