Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spanking 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) 04:21, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Spanking literature

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This article is nothing but original research. Yes -- there are literary works that involve spanking. There are probably some secondary sources on the topic of spanking in literature (it is hard to search for them, though, because search terms like "spanking literature" mostly bring up medical and social science papers). But there are no reliable sources that support the idea of "spanking literature" as a genre.

Looking at the two sources cited in this mostly unsourced article, I do not have access to The erotic margin: sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse but it is only used to support the inclusion of one book in the very long list of books, so I doubt it contains any substantial analysis of "spanking literature" as a whole. The Private Case is again used to cite the existence of one book and it is a bibliography, discussing individual works, not the topic in general. There is an external link to an article on sadomasochistic literature on glbtq.com but the article does not even mention spanking.

The article discusses the "Golden Age of Spanking" at length, but this concept does not seem to exist outside of Wikipedia, blogs, and porn novels self-published through Amazon: see Google search results. I checked Gale and JSTOR as well -- nothing. This appears to be pure WP:OR. Similarly, searches for "spanking literature", "spanking fiction", "spanking books" and so on only bring up examples of such, not WP:RS coverage of the supposed genre. Books about spanking indeed exist but this article is just a mess of unsourced synthesis. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 00:04, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 00:04, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 00:04, 11 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete This isn't a genre, but a group of mostly painful folks that want to make it a thing, and the sourcing isn't there to make it happen.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 03:08, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's pure OR. And I also was unable to find any reliable sources about spanking literature or the "Golden Age of Spanking". Crossroads -talk- 03:24, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete unable to find significant coverage, does not appear to be discussed by reliable independent sources --DannyS712 (talk) 07:12, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete it is just some fetishists that want to get their "media" on wikipedia. and sources are very much lacking. Clone commando sev (talk) 02:15, 12 May 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.