Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outsider literature


 * 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 delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 13:44, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Outsider literature

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It's clear that this analogue of "outsider art" must exist in some form, just as the concept of "outsider" anything must, but the article here offers only one blogger's strict and personal definition (which is already questioned by the article creator as being inconsistent in whether to count vanity publishing). Other sources use the term in many mild and unrelated ways, with no clear definition emerging to take this out of WP:NEOLOGISM. Lord Belbury (talk) 18:29, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:34, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete one blog is not enough to establish such a broad category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - an article could be created on this topic, but I'm not sure this is ready for mainspace. Bearian (talk) 13:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, buidhe 00:29, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per WP:NEOLOGISM. From JSTOR and Google Scholar I could only find two sources using the term "outsider literature" to refer to this analogue of outsider art: Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement about Charles Bukowski and The Harry Potter lexicon and the world of fandom about fan fiction. Wikipedia is not the place for a single blogger's literary theories. I believe there is not enough content about outsider literature to warrant its own page; however, it would fit in as a section of outsider art. userdude 01:46, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment Outsider art is a common and notable term. From which we have outsider music. At the very least this should be redirected and preferably merged to a section in outsider art. -- Green  C  16:21, 6 March 2020 (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.