Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Public Domain Literature

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 delete. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Public Domain Literature

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too large to have any meaning; notable is open to pov Tfine80 22:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Far to many possible entries. J Milburn 23:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Incorrectly named as List of Public Domain Literature is the appropriate title. As mentioned above, there are far too many possible entries to create such a list. If absolutely necessary to have something like this, make it a category. Soltak | Talk 23:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Move to List of notable literary works in the public domain (or notable public domain literature, for a shorter title) and limit to notable 19th century and 20th century works. "Beowulf" and "The Odyssey" are just silly. Tagging as unreferenced. --Dhartung | Talk 23:56, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Unmaintainable list that, at present, could include every work written before 1923, which runs into the thousands of titles. I believe there is already a category regarding this, anyway. 23skidoo 03:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Entirely overbroad. Project Gutenberg has over 20,000 works from public domain sources, and they've barely scratched the surface. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• KEEP Interesting and informative list. Could be broken up eventually into several lists but this not happening does not effect my "keep" vote. Dwain 00:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• 'delete not a bad idea, but a poor implementation. First of all, the creators obviously intended "literature" in the sense of imaginative literature, not books in general. Second, most of this is 19th c. novels, and of course all 19th c novels are PD. So it then becomes a list of 19th c. notable novels, and I suppose one could be constructed, though it would have to rely on some sort of criterion than would have to be spelled out. There is no point in a list of all 19th c. novels, that's appropriate for a category. I suggest it would be easier starting over than having this one hang around. DGG 04:30, 25 January 2007 (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.