Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paste (story)

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 of the debate was no consensus - Izehar 22:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paste (story)

Personal Essay Delete --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC) Keep after JJay Rewrite. --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 04:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete r3m0t ^talk 23:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep and clean-up. What is the problem here? This is about a Henry James story. -- JJay 01:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• I cleaned this up a bit. Delete voters should note we have 27 articles on Henry James fiction. Is there something objectionable about this story? -- JJay 04:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Strong delete as per nom. --Thephotoman 03:31, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay and nom Agnte 10:45, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, I guess. Needs cleanup, which I've been doing on the entries for James' major works. But Paste is such a minor story, though it's charming enough. Are we going to have articles for every single tale by James? He wrote 112 of them. I can understand articles for major tales like The Turn of the Screw, The Beast in the Jungle and The Aspern Papers. But Paste? Oh well, I'll fix it up a little when I get done with the more important entries. Casey Abell 14:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• (this comment was really made by 165.125.144.16 (talk • contribs) Johnleemk | Talk 16:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC))
• 165.125.144.16 is me. Sometimes I don't bother to log in, though I have to when I create an article. Casey Abell 16:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• I don't know much about Henry James, but I also don't see anything wrong, per se, with having articles on each short story, if editors want to submit them. Wasn't James known for his short stories? In any case, for organizational purposes, the short-story articles could eventually be combined into larger pieces on the collected short stories. -- JJay 18:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Some of James' most important writing is found in his stories, so I don't have any problem with people wrting articles about them. We already have entries on Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, Paste and The Beast in the Jungle. Another article is on the way for The Jolly Corner. I've made a separate category for entries about the stories on the main Henry James article. (Which is now starting to turn into the Henry James Portal for all the entries on his individual works.) But if we do articles on all James' 112 tales, that's gonna be a whole lot of articles goin' on. (wink) Casey Abell 13:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Henry James does deserve pretty thorough coverage on his writing, although articles on all the stories are obviously a long ways off. I actually just cleaned up Paste, which someone else (a student maybe) submitted. -- JJay 13:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• I think that this article should be kept. It has been cleaned up.

Link 13:52, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• I just added some commentary and criticism to the article, and generally tidied things up. The article is a definite keeper now, if I say so myself. Casey Abell 14:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete per r3m0t. Stifle 23:15, 23 December 2005 (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.