Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

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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 unanimous keep (non-admin closure). Prospect of merging left up to editors of the article. Skomorokh 01:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

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Propose article be moved to either wikiquote or wikibook IMO has little or no encyclopedic value and reads a little promotional. BigDunc (talk) 21:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. This is a children's book from the first decade of the twentieth century, by Edith Nesbit, an author of apparently no small importance, given that she was also one of the founders of the Fabian Society. I agree that the text of the story probably ought to move to Wikisource, and that it should be accompanied by the rest of the texts, which are already available from Project Gutenberg. Given that fact, no commercial intent here seems likely.

    Damn it! She skipped Titus Andronicus. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep... or merge with Edith Nesbit. Either's good. --Alchemy12 (talk) 15:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep According to this, Nesbit's adaptations "were reissued both individually and as collections many times by several publishers up until 1926". Seems like it was a fairly significant children's book, back in the day. I love how there was a "National Junior Shakespeare Club". :) Zagalejo^^^ 16:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment I am not saying it is not a significant book or author just if you remove the story example you are left with basically a list of Shakespeare plays and a very brief introduction about the book which could be covered in the main article about her. BigDunc (talk) 17:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • I think this book also warranted a mention in Jack Lynch's book Becoming Shakespeare. I don't have it handy, so I'd have to check. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 17:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 'Keep There will be multiple reviews of anything Nesbit wrote. Of course, they wont be on Google, but the criterion is sourceable. DGG (talk) 18:42, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge with author page; perhaps also wikisource the information. —ScouterSig 21:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep per DGG. John254 03:22, 7 April 2008 (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.