Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slam book


 * 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   Keep, consensus is that the article is verifiable and can meet the notability guidelines. Davewild (talk) 18:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Slam book

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This article has been tagged as unreferenced and original research for way too long! The closest thing to a reference is the connection to the movie Mean Girls but the book in that isn't even called a "Slam book" but apparently a "burn book". I can't find any encyclopedic sources for this subject. As it stands there is no verifiability. It may be that these books do exist but without references we have to assume that the analysis is pure original research. DanielRigal (talk) 21:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Appears to be original research and a neologism of some sort as well.  TN ‑ X - Man  21:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep but source. Numerous Google Books results indicate there are substantive sources available for this adolescent culture topic. --Dhartung | Talk 21:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, the phrase is in use but does not seem to have a consistent meaning that enables us to write about it in a coherent, encyclopedic way, hence the confused mess that the article is currently in. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep there are news articles ( http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/jun/03/rush-not-your-mamas-diary/) appearing on the phenom as described in the article, which needs sources. It is a useful function for wikipedia to define terms appearing in pop culture.Elan26 (talk) 00:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)Elan26
 * That is not a news article about slam books, it is a news article about something else that mentions slam books briefly, in passing. It might give us some clues to infer what a slam book is but it doesn't get us any closer to an encyclopaedic article on the subject. Remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. We need to do more than define terms. --DanielRigal (talk) 11:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep substantial enough for an article, additional references will be scattered but should be findable.. If "burn book" is a synonym, make a redirect from that. The preferred title can be discussed on the talk page, not here. DGG (talk) 21:28, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That is what I thought back in January but I didn't find any good references and, after almost 6 months tagged as unreferenced, you have to wonder if there is any hope of getting an acceptable quality of article out of this. I don't mind being proved wrong here but I don't want the result of this AfD to be a Keep but for nobody to ever do any work to bring the article up to standard. --DanielRigal (talk) 22:28, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete It sounds true to me, but as it stands the article is a primary source. Northwestgnome (talk) 04:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - I've added a reference, and there are plenty more out there.  ascidian  | talk-to-me  15:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Very notable element of adolescent culture.  You could source this to about six hundred YA novels.  Ford MF (talk) 23:44, 15 June 2008 (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.