Talk:The Business Man

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[edit] Notable enough?

Okay, as probably the biggest Poe fan Wikipedia has ever seen, I'm okay to say this: does "The Business Man" really deserve its own article? I wouldn't mind seeing this page deleted. --Midnightdreary (talk) 02:31, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I was wandering through the new pages, saw that the copyright bot had tagged this article, the original author had subsequently removed the text but promised to return, and I figured that if I put in all the appropriate infoboxes and whatnot that it would prevent having to clean it up later. I'm not a Poe historian and I know not of the general Wikipedia guidelines for his short stories, so if this is deletion and/or redirection fodder, then delete and/or redirect on! CosmicPenguin (Talk) 02:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for not being hostile to the suggestion. Lately, I've been a fan of quality over quantity, so there's my bias. Tell you what, I'll dig through my Poe library (in a week or so, Poe's birthday this weekend is keeping me busy) and see if I can find evidence of significant scholarship on this story. If a cursory search turns up anything fruitful, it may be worth expanding this article. --Midnightdreary (talk) 03:41, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Prod for deletion

I went ahead and prodded this for deletion. In addition to the lack of notability and lack of significant discussion in scholarly sources, it seems the text is a copyvio. --Midnightdreary (talk) 17:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, the PROD has been removed so now is a good time to decide: should this be taken to articles for deletion or can we find ways to improve this? --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:26, 1 February 2008 (UTC)