Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martha Quest


 * 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 keep. I added the refs to the article. (non-admin closure) Kraxler (talk) 14:55, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Martha Quest

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No explanation of notability offered. Though the author seems notable, I'm not finding much for references to justify this title. Mikeblas (talk) 13:57, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:55, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep or Merge with Doris Lessing- There seems to be JUST enough in critical essays to justify the article, though perhaps a 'series' article would have made more sense.Pincrete (talk) 18:10, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge to Doris Lessing's page. If sources exist, they can be added there, until enough sources turn up to justify a stand-alone article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:18, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge to Doris Lessing's page until someone can develop it on its own. A search of World Cat finds this book was published in multiple languages in 2008, and became an ebook in 2014. Amazon notes that it was first published in 1970, but all the comments are from readers not reviewers. — Maile  (talk) 18:29, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95  Talk  17:45, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment This is the first novel in a sequence of 5 ending with The Four-Gated City, which has a decent article. I would suggest that the article on the 5th book could be repurposed as an article on the whole set with this one merged in.  But is anyone willing to organise that?  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:22, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, speedy close, trout the nominator, their family, their offspring, their ancestors, their pets and/or livestock, all of their Facebook friends, all of their email contacts and all of the artists on their Spotify playlist. Dear God. Where to begin? Doris Lessing "seems notable"? Only one Nobel Prize in Lierature; I guess she's no better than marginal. We all know that the literary work of Nobelists garners little or no critical attention, as the eighty-odd pages of Google Scholar citations for this title so resoundingly demonstrates. Where is Qworty when you need him to purge Wikipedia of such unworthy doggerel?
 * You know, there is more reliably source-quality critical commentary out there on Martha Quest than there is on Jonny Quest, Seaquest DSV, and King's Quest combined, by a very wide and very healthy margin. The abysmal stupidity represented by proposal like this can only bring shame to Wikipedia. Deserved shame, it seems, given the lack of well-informed responses to it. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 05:42, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment agree with The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) that this is a notable book (although we may all like some WP:TEA).Keep, meets WP:NBOOK. Google search reveals numerous reliable sources, academic papers etc.  Here are some of them:
 * Seeing Herself through Literature: Martha Quest’s Reading Habit in Doris Lessing’s The Children of Violence in The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Issue 12, February 2013, by Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed and Sultana Jahan - discusses the development of the main character through the series.
 * (site is on wiki blacklist)A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Reading of Martha’s “Battle” with Mrs. Quest in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest by Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed from Journal of Arts and Humanities (JAH), Volume -3, No.-4, April, 2014, pages 32to39 - review of book concentrating on relationship between protaginist and her mother.
 * Nostalgia for the Future: Remembrance of Things to Come in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest by Frederick J. Solinger from ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Volume 45, Number 3, July 2014, pp. 75-99 (subscriber site, project muse - accessible by some wikieditors?)
 * Doris Lessing: Book by Book Profile by Jessica Teisch - includes excerpts of book reviews from the New York Times and Library Journal.
 * The article could also be expanded to cover the character Martha Quest ie. 'Martha Quest is the main character and the title of the first book in the book series The Children of Violence by Nobel prize winner Doris Lessing.' Here are some of the resources available discussing the character: -Martha's Odyssey: the Motif of the Journey in Doris Lessing's The Children of Violence by Lamia Tayeb University of Human and Social Sciences, Tunis, Tunisia,, Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change by Gayle Greene isbn 9780472084333, Relationship Between Women and Knowledge in Lessing´s The Summer Before the Dark, Martha Quest and A Proper Marriage - Masters Thesis.Coolabahapple (talk) 14:11, 2 August 2015 (UTC)


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