Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luke Bauer v. Space Poetry


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The result of the debate was delete. --Cel e stianpower háblame 13:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Luke Bauer v. Space Poetry
Mixture of vanity and original research. The concept of "space poetry" appears to be unverifiable and its sole author non-notable. --MarkSweep &#x270D; 05:39, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete "Luke Bauer", Keep and rewrite "Space Poetry". "Space Poetry" article is in fact inaccurate. Such a genre exists, but it has been going for decades. It is not of recent origin. In fact, I'm sure I read somewhere that it had been started in the 30s, if not earlier. --MacRusgail 10:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Both as per nom. I'm sure people were writing poems about space before Luke Bauer; heck, I've done it myself, even for publication ("Starsailor", California Poet, 1976, if anyone cares. :-)). But that does not make it a recognized genre any more than Tree poetry, House poetry, or Airplane poetry. MCB 01:20, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - I believe space poetry is a kind of recognised genre, at least by the SF community. I have read about it in litcrit books on the genre. As for trees, some cultures do have special genres devoted to them. But I'm not going to make a case for tree poetry, even if the late great, Sorley MacLean wrote about them. --MacRusgail 15:19, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - It seems the genre is sufficiently established to merit at least one anthology (Frontier of Going, ed. John Fairfax, Panther 1973), risible as the back jacket may be ("Space has always been too important to be left to the scientists...") It's also unclear to what extent the poems in fact deal with "the impossibility of writing poetry about space."  Nonetheless, this suggests that a rewrite, not deletion, is the way to go. --User:J.Hartman 06:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete until the guy does something more than get one poem published. If there needs to be a "Space Poetry" article, it can be written separately. Devotchka 00:52, 26 October 2005 (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.