Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Working Out (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   delete. Cirt (talk) 08:54, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Working Out (book)

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Contested prod - Article was prodded with a rationale of "No evidence of notability". An IP posted to the talk page with, "An important book for glbt history. It should be kept on wikipedia in my view. Thanx." I took that for a contest of the prod and removed the prod tag. The article was re-prodded with a rationale of "unsourced article about a book whose author doesn't have one, backed up only by an unsourced assertion that it's an important part of LGBT culture as "the first erotic book that [gay men] could openly buy without having their sexuality exposed". Except, er, no -- the whole beefcake magazine phenomenon predates this book by at least 50 years." Lady of  Shalott  16:16, 19 December 2009 (UTC)  Lady  of  Shalott  16:16, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions.  —  Lady  of  Shalott  16:20, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this book. Joe Chill (talk) 18:59, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:V, WP:N. The only academic reference I can find to this book doesn't mention the LGBT angle at all. Pburka (talk) 21:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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