Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of banned writers


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The result was   Delete. If a suitable target exists or is created later there is no prejudice against setting a redirect but, I don't really see on at this point. Eluchil404 (talk) 20:48, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

List of banned writers

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A an unreferenced list without any sort of actual prose that adds nothing to WP. See also the comments on the talk page. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 04:19, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note that there is a List of books banned by governments etc. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 08:02, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - Banned by whom? Is every author of every book tossed out by a banjo-plucking Southern school board to be included? Authors of works deemed ideologically deviant by the USSR or 1930s Germany or by reactionary Middle Eastern regimes? And where are the footnotes demonstrating this status? Arbitrary inclusion parameters for an overly broad topic... Carrite (talk) 19:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * LOL! -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 19:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Too vague, unreferenced and wil take forever to reference ever author. Delete for now  Jay Jay Talk to me 21:07, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Convert into a list of lists. There's already List of authors and works on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and List of authors banned during the Third Reich. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:11, 26 December 2012 (UTC)


 * The two lists you mention have a distinct qualifier. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * A list of lists would be a completely different article, as "converting" this would first require a complete blanking. So feel free to do that regardless of how this AFD closes, with this title as a reasonable redirect to that list of lists. postdlf (talk) 19:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. We already have List of books banned by governments. This list is much less useful, in that it does not indicate which works by these authors were banned, who banned them, when, or why. Furthermore, this list is alphabetized by the authors' first names. That's not standard practice in English. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:43, 26 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Though some of these writers deserve to have their writings forgotten, or at least ignored, simply being banned by somebody is not enough of a unifying factor to justify a Wikipedia article. Pete unseth (talk) 16:14, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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