Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of women writers of dark fiction


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The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:13, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

List of women writers of dark fiction

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'Dark fiction' is a redlink, and a somewhat nebulous concept. As such this list doesn't have clear inclusion criteria. It's also largely unsourced. Robofish (talk) 02:04, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * As an alternative to deletion, this list could be renamed to something more specific, such as List of women writers of Gothic fiction (which we have an article on) or List of women horror writers (which oddly doesn't seem to exist). Robofish (talk) 02:05, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Notifying contributors: User:Gothkid2000, User:Fadesga, User:Ramsey Campbell, User:Emmaaudsley, User:RedNostromo. Others who may be interested are User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, who proposed this article for deletion in 2014, and User:Fun with aluminum, who contested the prod. Robofish (talk) 02:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 02:35, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom and per the logic of my original PROD. Just about every creator fiction at one point or another writes fiction that is in important ways "dark". No Angela Carter, no Alison Lurie, no Iris Murdoch, no Sylvia Plath, and very few non-English-language writers. There are, however, lots of small press horror/fasntasy writes and most of the women who wrote for Abyss Books. Fundamentally and incurably subjective. And Poppy Brite has been a male writer for a while now. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 03:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom —Мандичка YO 😜 03:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete per arguments of Nom and User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz. In particular, the undefined inclusion criteria make a valid list hopeless.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:01, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


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