Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bildungsroman examples (pre-1930)

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. Sandstein 17:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bildungsroman examples (pre-1930)[edit]

This is a continuation of an already uselessly long list of examples for this genre. noit (talk) 20:35, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 09:02, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 09:04, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, reluctantly. I hate this sort of debate because there could be a perfectly adequate article with this title. However this is just an unsourced list of works which some Wikipedians thought met the criteria. (And, in some cases, rather questionably, in my humble-type view.) The parent article is very short, and would definitely benefit from a section containing a few well-chosen and well-sourced examples. But creating a comprehensive list is probably a futile endeavor, and I see nothing here that I'd want to merge. AndyJones (talk) 12:43, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is a reference/indexing list of notable books that have their own articles. Lists do not need separate references if they are lists of links to articles that make the case for inclusion on the list: their inclusion then becomes needless clutter. Whether individual books meet the criteria for inclusion can then be discussed on their own articles in chief. This is just a compilation, meant to be helpful to readers interested in pre-1930 Bildungsroman examples for comparison purposes. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:24, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- No, I don't agree. I'd have voted keep if this was a navigational list, but it's not: it purports to be a list of examples of a particlular literary phenomenon: and to populate such a list requires sourcing. Your suggestion that the sourcing could be at the individual pages would carry more weight it it actually was. Not one of the first ten items on this list mentions "Bildungsroman" in its body text. AndyJones (talk) 18:31, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Such a list could go on forever, and there is no organizational elements which makes any sense out of what is there. Examples should be sufficient in the main article without adding an endless set of more examples. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 20:04, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.