Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White Negro

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 keep. Sandstein 12:49, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] White Negro

White Negro (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

With all due respect to my man Morgan the creator, this phenomenon is not verifiable or notable enough to create an article. Moreover, this movement basically has nothing to do with the wigga movement in the '90s to now so merging the 2 would be factually wrong. Bonafide.hustla ^Talk 19:05, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

• keep. I don't understand the nomination. The article is about an essay by a Pulitzer prize-winning author. That is surely verifiable. — brighterorange (talk) 19:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep The author is very notable, and this is an article about the essay, and not the movement. While it doesn't have any verification, I'm fairly certain that I could find it by searching on the internet, or a library catologue in as little as 10 minutes. Actually...here we go. According to http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm: ...'The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster' (1956) was originally published in Dissent and reprinted in ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF (1959). I'm going to add it to the article. --Адам12901 ^Talk 20:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete or merge with a relevant article. The problem is that the article isn't about the movement; it's about an essay that talks about the movement, with no context. This is better as a footnote in some other historical article(s), because there's absolutely nowhere to go with this article that isn't simple summary or copyright infringement. MSJapan 20:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, I disagree with MSJapan because the article can also talk about its reception and impact, which other articles about essays also do (see Federalist Papers and A Modest Proposal. A simple google search revealed plenty material that can expand this article. hateless 20:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Extremely notable author, plenty of material available to source, etc. --- RockMFR 22:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep unless you really think Norman Mailer and his works aren't notable. Tarinth 23:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per hateless. — coelacan talk — 23:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Hipster ---- Squidfryerchef 05:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Shuck that jive. The article is about the title of an essay, not the subculture itself. — coelacan talk — 00:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep and merge to The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster since that is the name of the essay.--Sefringle 03:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per all of the above keep comments. I'm also ok with moving the article to the title of the essay as proposed by Sefringle. --Richard 08:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.