Talk:1970s in literature

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This article was nominated for deletion on 24 February 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] WP:OR

Pretty much sums it up. The Afd vote was keep but there's no way this article meets Wikipedia guidelines nor is it ever likely to unless it were about literary criticism of the 1970's. As it stands now it's just an essay and unreferenced laundry list of (mostly) American books written in the 1970's.Awotter (talk) 05:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bravo

This is the first and only article of this type on Wikipedia. Such articles are common in the real world (surveys of literature on a period basis) but Wikipedia's technicalities make it nearly impossible to pass the sniff test. About the only way to approach it would be to collect 4 or 5 surveys and then amalgamate them together - but then it's still POV because it's a limited selection of opinions. At some point Wikipedia has to live with the fact that art criticism is all opinion, yet it is also established non-controversial common knowledge. Some people have a problem with that dichotomy. This article appears to have been attacked for it, too bad as someone did a lot of hard work here. Fothergill Volkensniff IV (talk) 14:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)