Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Right to Read

The Right to Read was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was transwiki to Wikisource. As of 17:39, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC), this article is still in the queue to be moved. Rossami (talk)

Belongs on wikisource, not here. -- Bonalaw 14:02, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep preamble (and mark as stub). Move story, in all its intense and oppresive rubbishosity to wikisource.  GWO 14:07, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * transwiki, but to wikibooks or wikisource? I would have thought the former.  Insignificant work, do not make stub. Dunc_Harris|&#9786; 14:08, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * transwiki the bulk, but keep an article on the story, as I feel it is notable. Darksun 14:10, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Geogre, what is the prose equivalent of doggerel? No vote. Vote below. Wile E. Heresiarch 14:22, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki; not sure that we need to preserve much notice of what the story is/was, as Stallman is very active and information on his attempts at fiction can be included in his article. Wile E., I think the term here is "hackneyed."  I don't mean to comment on the man's aims, but the prose is, well, kind of hack.  He's not an author, though, so no penalty for not being to do everything well.  (People don't try to do denistry without going to dental school, but everyone thinks he or she can write; that's why writers are rarer than dentists.)  Geogre 14:56, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, the purpose of the story is political, not literary. I'm still not convinced that the story is sufficiently notable to merit storage in Wikisource but that is someone else's problem. Redirect The Right to Read to Richard M. Stallman and drop a short blurb there. Wile E. Heresiarch 16:30, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki story to wikisource, merge and redirect remainder to Richard M. Stallman.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 17:26, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Certainly we need stuff on how copyright functions in the real world, but this isn't the place for a short story. I can see some useful material in this, but in this form I'd vote to Delete.  PedanticallySpeaking 20:25, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

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