Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Four-Hour Fugue

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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The result was Keep due to withdrawn nomination. No idea why I couldn't find anything. -Amarkov blahedits 16:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Four-Hour Fugue

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Non-notable short story, I can't find any references. Amarkov blahedits 06:07, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep - Google seems to back up the idea that it was nominated for a Hugo Award. Where these fall in the world of creative writing I'm not sure (and neither am I sure whether a nominee is as notable as, say, one for an Oscar), but it could well scrape over the line. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 06:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep The Hugo is one of the most prominent awards for fiction in the science fiction genre. Receiving Being nominated for one makes this noteworthy within the genre. Shimeru 07:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep: If it was nominiated for a Hugo then it's notable. The Hugo is one of the most prestigious awards in science fiction, even being nominated is a big deal for them. Ben W Bell talk 08:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per Hugo Award nomination. Could do with a bit of expansion though. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 09:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, it's not too surprising that there's not much on-line, since the story is from the seventies, but the Locus Magazine link confirms the Hugo nomination. The article is weak (didn't even name the author, a detail I fixed), but the story seems to be notable enough. Xtifr tälk 10:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment This story appeared in a magazine in 1974, and was selected for a "Year's Best SF" anthology too. I have no view on whether it should stay, because the criteria for keeping a work of fiction are not clear to me. However, in the absence of criteria I would say only rarely does a story justift an actual article, rather than mention in context; nothing in that way makes it notable. By the way, Hugos are as close to an Oscar as you can get in the written science fiction world, and only 5-6 items per category make the nomination list. Notinasnaid 10:44, 19 November 2006 (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.