Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Om det tragiske

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The result of the debate was copyvio. Joyous 00:12, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Om det tragiske

15 Google hits for "Petter Wessel Zapffe", one for "Petter Zapffe". This reads like a copyvio, too. RickK 09:09, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Trilobite (Talk) 14:55, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, book ad. Merge, some of these articles are so promotionally written at first... Wyss 19:49, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• No vote of yet, but I would like to flag Den fortapte sønn, another of Zapffe's books; Den sidste Messias, an essay by Zappfe; to biosophy, mostly a discussion of Zapffe's philosophy; and finally to the Peter Wessel Zapffe article itself. Stuff about Zapffe has also been added to pessimism. I will admit that I had never heard of Zapffe before seeing him pop up on Wikipedia; and I am fairly well read on philosophical pessimism. Spelling his name "Peter" boosts his Google hits to above 2000, pretty good for a Scandinavian philosopher. If Zapffe is so minor a figure that his "best-known work" shouldn't have a page, the rest of these articles should perhaps share the fate of this one. If this is an important work, it should be cleaned up (assuming it is not in fact a copyvio) and kept. -- Smerdis of Tlön 21:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• I think it should be merged with Zapffe's main article. If kept, however, it should be renamed to its English title, and be heavily edited to get to NPOV. Radiant! 22:24, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • Again, no opinion as to whether the book merits a separate article, but the other articles with titles in Norwegian should also be moved/renamed to English language versions also. -- Smerdis of Tlön 15:02, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep cleanup and expand. Megan1967 08:49, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Peter Wessel Zapffe (if not a copyvio). Translating titles of books is problematic if no English translation actually exists. / u p p l a n d 15:47, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable book. JamesBurns 08:06, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• It's a copyvio, as helpfully noted at the bottom of the article. I've listed it as such at WP:CP. —Korath (Talk) 02:37, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

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