Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poet-diplomat


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 02:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Poet-diplomat

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While certainly there have been people in history who have been both poets and diplomats, I'm not sure I see how the fact of having held both of those occupations combines into a concept of "poet-diplomat" that is notable in its own right as a unified thing — as near as I can tell, this can never actually be much more than a "list of people who happen to have been both X and Y", rather than an article about a genuinely notable cultural phenomenon. Delete unless somebody can provide much more evidence of notability than this. Bearcat (talk) 03:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, to my everlasting surprise. There's The Chaucer Review article "Chaucer's Envoys and the Poet-Diplomat" and Abhay Kumar's musings in "Poetry and Diplomacy", plus a scattering of mentions elsewhere. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:52, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep, a look at Google and Google Scholar show that this term is not a neologism and is more notable than much of the ***** I come across here. Given time this article could develop into something more than a list of names.--Derek Andrews (talk) 14:49, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:46, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Strong keep, there is a strong connection between a poet and a diplomat. 7 diplomats have won the Nobel prize for literature for poetry so far. There are several articles on the Internet on this. This article could be further developed. Kalhause (talk) 17:38, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
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