Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uchronia


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The result was keep. Lourdes 14:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Uchronia

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Article is about a neologism with no substantial coverage in reliable third party sources. Cannot write a verifiable article that passes the general notability guideline. Jontesta (talk) 23:32, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Jontesta (talk) 23:32, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 00:04, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Term was first used in 1876 and continues to be used in literary criticism. (See my two additions of articles retrieved on JSTOR.) Diane J Young (talk) 04:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. The nominator is certainly wrong to say there's "no substantial coverage in reliable third party sources". We have Alexandre Franco de Sá on uchronia as "the evocation of a time which evades time itself", associated with Derrida's "democracy to come", Claire S. Brault on uchronia as a way of describing the impossibility of endless economic growth, Aaron Worth on uchronia as a theme in speculative fiction, Claudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández on uchronia as "the confluence of ideal time and no time" in Mexican film, and several other substantial discussions of the concept, all in academic journals or edited volumes and all taken from the first page of Google Scholar results. The fact that each of these is using the concept in subtly or substantially different senses raising certain problems, but there's enough common ground in the literature – it always means, in layperson's terms, something like "utopia but with time instead of space" – to make this is a viable broad-concept article. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 23:00, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:33, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per Arms & Hearts. Mccapra (talk) 09:48, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


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