Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder

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Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder
Possible hoax? I didn't have any luck on Guinness World Records nor Google. - Mailer Diablo 14:58, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) Moved and expanded a bit. Mikkalai 00:10, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably better known as "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". Delete as being beyond the pointless. Chris 15:13, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Fuzheado | Talk 15:14, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete . No, it's not a hoax, but checking a library catalogue or two is often better than googling when looking for a book. It seems to be something other than the original Baron Münchhausen stories. From the catalogue of the British Library: Mr. Munchausen. Being a true account of some of the recent adventures beyond the Styx of the late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem, and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal by J. K. Bangs. Embellished with drawings by P. Newell. Noyes, Pratt & Co.: Boston, 1901. The author's full name is John Kendrick Bangs and that article links to this book title. There seems to be no reason for this to be an article of its own at this point. / Uppland 15:22, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep moved and expanded version. / Uppland 19:29, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Baron Münchhausen (as if anyone will actually type that title in themselves) and maybe make note of it there if not already done so. I don't know if this title is indeed the longest, so making that claim without backup probably doesn't work. 23skidoo 17:08, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * No redirect. it is not Baron Münchhausen as we know him.
 * Move to Mr. Munchausen. This is not the first book with very long title, and there is a custom to abbreviate titles and names in references and article names. Mikkalai 00:06, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, pointless. Megan1967 01:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Mr. Munchausen and expand (per Mikkalai). Google confirms John Kendrick Bangs was an author of at least some note, this book shows up as well, and his wiki page has links to reasonable articles about his other books. The Bangs book appears to be something distinct from Adventures of Baron Münchhausen and would be a legitimate article with a little more material and an abbrev title. Dryman
 * I am confused by some of the previous comments. There is no content worth moving anywhere.  This was arguably a speedy delete candidate (without prejudice against a future real article).  That said, the topic of this book does appear to refer to the same Baron Münchhausen.  Pending further evidence, I'm going to vote to return this to a redlink, though I see a strong argument for redirect.  Rossami (talk) 06:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * We are discussing the what to do here. Yes, the content is silly, but... (a) the topic is valid and (b) what would be a reasonable title is better to decide now, while we are at this, also because it is linked from several places. Mikkalai 18:16, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * It now real content (thanks to Mikkalai). Keep (though I would not object to "keep as merge and redirect to Baron Münchhausen since the book seems to be primarily known as a parody and I favor keeping topics in context.)  Rossami (talk) 23:39, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Can we please not have page titles of over a hundred characters long? Nobody's going to search on this term so a redirect would be very very pointless. Move/expand but no redirect from here. Radiant_* 09:10, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Mr. Munchausen and delete redirect, it's not a proper subtitle. Gazpacho 14:16, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, valid book. Grue 17:00, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the moved article. Tobyox 22:03, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with abbreviated title. Might need redirects for other possible abbreviations of the title. -- Glen Finney 19:37, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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