Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/May 68, Philosophy is in the Street!


 * 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   redirect to Vincent Cespedes.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 02:14, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

May 68, Philosophy is in the Street!

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Referred from CAT:SD to AfD, original rationale was: This book does not exist. Plus, of course, no source is given, and the whole thing is "original research" (well, "research" is a bit far-fetched). The title of this article is a translation of the French book title. One more article from a serial spammer on fr:, now it seems he is also on en:. Sigh. Oyp (talk) 14:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC) I am neutral. Tim Song (talk) 02:47, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Neither this article or its French equivalent achieve any indication of notability. The article is merely a publicity synopsis; May68 books are 10 a centime and nothing looks notably new here - reheated leftovers. And no book of this title exists; if the French book was ever translated it may not even have this title. Also noting COI concerns on equivalent French Wikipedia at and . AllyD (talk) 19:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * For non-French speakers, AllyD is referring to suspicions that Cespedes wrote his autobiography on fr: and articles about his books. In fact, those articles were probably written by someone (or several persons) very close to him, but not himself. Not that it makes this book any more notable, of course. Two articles about Cespedes are already listed for deletion on fr:, with probably more to follow. Oyp (talk) 22:42, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   06:19, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions.  —AllyD (talk) 21:59, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Merge and redirect to Vincent Cespedes. This book's article-worthiness by itself seems borderline, but assuming the article on the author himself is sufficiently notable to avoid AfD itself, I see no reason why some of this material couldn't be salvaged and placed there. The over-the-top promotional tone is obviously a problem, but some (perhaps small) portion of this material is just a synopsis of the book, which in condensed form would be a fine addition to the article on the author. -- Rbellin|Talk 04:13, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I see your suggestion, though a further consideration is that merging to the author article would be increasing the weight of unreferenced information (French blog ref aside) in an already fragile BLP. AllyD (talk) 19:48, 30 March 2010 (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.