Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Works by G. William Domhoff


 * 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. Based on the uncontested argument that the content proposed for a merge is already contained in the history of the target page. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:44, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Works by G. William Domhoff

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WP is not for posting lists of publications except of the most notable people (like Einstein). A short bibliography (with, say, 5 entries) with the most important selected works (as substantiated by independent sources) can be included in the article on an academic. All academics publish, but we don't need a completely list of publications for every one of them. This list violates WP:ELLIST, WP:NOTDIRECTORY, and WP:NOTLINKFARM. There are many references, but they don't discuss Domhoff's work as a whole but only individual works. Therefore this fails WP:GNG and the notability guideline of the WikiProject Bibliographies. Similar bibliographies have been deleted/redirected in the past. I have tried to discuss this issue with the list creator on my talk page, but apparently did not succeed in convincing them. "Works by G. William Domhoff" would be an unlikely search term, so a redirect may not be very useful. Hence: Delete. Randykitty (talk) 08:20, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Randykitty (talk) 08:20, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academic journals-related deletion discussions. Randykitty (talk) 08:21, 18 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Xxanthippe (talk) 10:18, 18 September 2019 (UTC).
 * Delete, basically per nom. There is already an article G. William Domhoff and the main works by the author are already discussed there. That's sufficient, and we don't need an extra content fork on the topic. Nsk92 (talk) 10:52, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Selective merge to G. William Domhoff. Links to book reviews, for example, are helpful information and should be preserved, while individual journal articles and chapters in collections are most likely below the threshold of significance for mentioning. Appropriately trimmed, this material would not impose a serious length burden upon the biography page. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 17:09, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:15, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:15, 19 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete and selective merge per above.4meter4 (talk) 12:59, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment, for those suggesting a selective merge. The actual bibliography content that is suggested to be merged here, already exists in the history log of the target article, G. William Domhoff, see this pre-split version, dated Sept 16, 2019, here . Beyond what was already there in that Sept 16 version, I don't think there is any additional bibliography content in the Works by G. William Domhoff article that needs to be merged. If someone really wants to re-add selective bibliography to G. William Domhoff, they can pull the relevant info from the Sept 16 version, even after Works by G. William Domhoff is deleted. Nsk92 (talk) 14:50, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


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