Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial


 * 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 Merge which I leave up to y'all - crz crztalk 14:00, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial

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This article should be deleted on the basis of nonsense. Finkeltein "dissection" of Peter's book is not something he's written up enough himself, never mind that it should gain credence for an article on wikipedia. There are numerous WP:rules by which the deletion should be completed. frummer 07:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOR, check out WP:WWIN for more. frummer 07:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletions.  - crz crztalk 08:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. One person's views of another person's book generally should not constitute an article in itself. --Metropolitan90 08:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - a book review is a book review, not an encyclopedia entry.  SkierRMH, 08:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Merge with the Norman Finkelstein page. This is about a substantial part of one of his published notable books, and is a notable controversy surrounding Mr Finkelstein himself.   Hence I feel WP:NOR is not a valid argument.  I suggest possibly trimming a little, and merging back into the main article.  This article was originally broken out of the main article which has a section redirecting to it.  See also the talk page.  Considering the controversial nature of the subject of the article, I fear this nomination may not be entirely good faith. Akihabara 10:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I find it is suspicious that frummer, at the same time as proposing this article for deletion, removed the suggested merge tag. I do not believe this is appropriate behaviour.  Thanks to IZAK for restoring this.  Akihabara 13:35, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment, deletions rarely occur without salvaging text from the deleted article and moved to a relevant one, in my judgement, it was OK to delete the merge tag. Anyways, I would like to see how all that trivia is going to reach into his or his book's main article. As per Metropolitan90, it prob won't. frummer


 * Merge with the main Norman Finkelstein article. Too much of an obvious and not needed fork. IZAK 12:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge with the page about the book | Blaming the Victims. Finkelstein work on From Time Immemorial was first published in book-form in  Blaming the Victims, in 1988. Regards, Huldra 05:36, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. As per Metropolitan90. --Shuki 19:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge Per above. Somitho 12:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Amoruso 11:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge Per above. FasterPussycatWooHoo 11:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge. frummer is manipulating us (see comment above). Metropolitan90 mentions 'in general'. Could be. In this case: the last paragraph describes the connection between the dissertation, the author, and the university (!) getting into trouble. Now thats not just a view. And not one to be deleted too. -DePiep 19:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge with From Time Immemorial, though I hate to add another option to an already convoluted AfD discussion. I agree with Metropolitan90 and others above that this is not a subject for a separate article.  However, it seems to me that the logical place to merge a book criticism is to the article about the book being criticized.  The book article already contains references to Finkelstein's criticism, so I think that discussion should be expanded to include the salvageable content from this article.--Kubigula (talk) 03:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge one way or another: too narrow to deserve a separate article, but Finkelstein's critique of Peters certainly belongs in Wikipedia somewhere. - Jmabel | Talk 05:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge into From Time Immemorial with some commentary in the Finkelstein article. --64.230.127.234 19:10, 21 December 2006 (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.