Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What Janie Found

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 keep. --Michael Snow 05:18, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What Janie Found

This article has no less than three tags (not counting the VfD tag I placed) asking to improve its quality. The contents, as of the time of writing, are hopelessly unencyclopedic. They don't even mention whether this is about real life or a fictional story. Delete unless the article can be expanded, at least to mention what the bloody blazes it's actually about. — JIP | Talk 13:10, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• It's a real book, I have added a line saying so to the article, so I'm voting keep at the moment. However, I don't know if Wikipedia:WikiProject Books or Novels have particular guidelines as to how notable a book needs to be. In any case, the article is seriously in need to a clean-up -- Lochaber 16:19, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• If cleaned and clear and concise, keep. My suspicion is that it will be hard to rid the article of its pre-teen book report content. I hope I'm proven wrong, but send to cleanup with this VfD deliberation on the article's talk page. Geogre 17:45, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• Concur with Geogre -- wants clarification & context, but clearly is an attempt to summarise a book that had an impact on the submitter --Simon Cursitor 19:24, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• KEEP This is getting ridiculous. Why do we even have cleanup tags, if VfD trolls are just going to ignore them? VfDs are for getting rid of articles that will never be encylopedic, not for punishing people who submit badly-written articles. ----Isaac R 21:13, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: VfD is not for getting rid of articles. VfD is for deliberating on whether an article has or has not violated the deletion policy. It is not an insult or punishment for an article to be listed here. Voters have to be trusted to decide on the right conclusion, and, if you do trust them, then stop, please, insulting people who list an article for VfD by calling them trolls. Geogre 03:13, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks for your comments, Geogre. Anyway, I think I have been too hasty in nominating this for VfD. I change my vote to Keep and clean-up. — JIP | Talk 06:51, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and clean-up. Capitalistroadster 23:49, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The three cleanup tags had only been there two minutes before JIP slapped a VfD on it. — P Ingerson (talk) 00:07, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the bookcruft, of course. Ketsuban has spoken. The debate is over. 02:23, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this needs cleanup not deletion. Megan1967 05:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup, and stop attacking the motivations of VfD nominators. RickK 05:43, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

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