Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Restatement (Second) of Contracts

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The result was Keep, nomination withdrawn. Maxamegalon2000 16:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Restatement (Second) of Contracts

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This appears to be the only Restatement of the Law with its own article. I don't see what makes it any more notable than the rest, or what makes the rest notable enough to have articles as well. Maxamegalon2000 00:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

• Comment the article links back to Restatement of the Law where there are 21 red links. I guess that they are all as notable as each other. I surmise that the intention of the authors was to create 22 individual articles for each of these individual restatements, and this was the only one they started before they ran out of steam. Googling "Restatement of the Law Second of Contracts" returned 2,400,000 odd hits without the quotation marks and some 28 hits with. I'm no lawyer so I don't know how important those 28 hits are. It doesn't help that the WikiProjectLaw assesment box is blank. The best thing I guess is to put something on WikiProjectLaw's talk page both as a curtesy and as a request for imformation as to how notable this topic is.KTo288 01:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep. Probably all of the restatements are notable enough. I think this is not as influential as the Restatements of Tort, but it's still widely cited. These restatements are made with massive scholarly input, and some sections of them become the de facto rule of law in some common law jurisdictions. Cool Hand Luke 02:55, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, each Restatement is a notable topic in American law, about which enough could be said to fill an article on how it was organized and written, and what significant changes and concepts it introduced or enshrined. See Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition for an example of how a single edition of a reissued reference publication can constitute a stand-alone topic. However, given the current minimal state of this article, there's no point to this existing separately from Restatement of the Law until it is expanded. As with all such subtopics, it would have been a far better use of the nominator's time to simply merge and redirect rather than listing it for deletion. Postdlf 03:56, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep Each Restatement is notable even if they are currently redlinked. Restatement of Contracts especially so. Can be easily expanded with minimal sourcing. Any first-year law student can probably rewrite the article. Wl219 05:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• (EC) Strong keep: The treatise to which this article refers is one of the most well-recognized and frequently-cited in all of Anglo-American jurisprudence. Every first year law student in every ABA-accredited law school in the United States is familiar with it, and it is probably the most-cited non-binding authority in all of U.S. case law. It is a work without peer in terms of overall influence and recognition among the bar and bench, with the possible exception of the Restatement of Torts. It is prepared by the American Law Institute. dr.ef.tymac 05:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Restatement of the Law based on the current content of the article, which is minimal. If the article received a rewrite which specifically explained the Restatement's influence, I might reconsider. By the way, the best way to Google this topic would be as "restatement second of contracts", which yields 72,600 hits by my count. --Metropolitan90 07:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep given the response of those with a knowledge of the topic has established this articles notability, so a nomination for deletion based on notabilty has no grounds. Yes the article as it stands needs work but it would be better to tag the article as in need of improvement and put a request on the WikiProjectLaw talk page asking for those interested in this topic and the other 21 redlinks to help expand the article. Thanks to all from WikiProjectLaw who anwsered my earlier request for enlightenment.KTo288 08:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Dreftymac. · jersyko talk 13:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep. This Restatement is one of the most-cited of all the Restatements, it is an authoritative source of law. I expect that the article will continue to grow. Terry Carroll 16:17, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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