Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mother Pollard

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 transwiki. W.marsh 18:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mother Pollard[edit]

This is a quote, not a biography. Transfer to wikiquote. --Hetar 03:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep. Martin Luther King said she was notable, and used her as a figure in his preaching. "Since that dreary night in 1956, Mother Pollard has passed on to glory and I have known very few quiet days. I have been tortured without and tormented within by the raging fires of tribulation. I have been forced to muster what strength and courage I have to withstand howling winds of pain and jostling storms of adversity. But as the years have unfolded the eloquently simple words of Mother Pollard have come back again and again to give light and peace and guidance to my troubled soul." The quotation is well known, and has been the source for the title to more than one notable history of the US civil rights movement (the best known by Howell Raines). I like the eloquently simple form the article now has, and would myself simplify it a shade further, but I expect someone would soon enough convert to a more mundane, traditionally encyclopedic form. That someone would seriously claim that Mother Pollard (sometimes referred to as Sister Pollard) does not merit a few bytes of space in a supposed encyclopedia which devotes absurd amounts of it to fictional characters from mediocre cartoons, "performers" in the erotica trade, all the subway stations in the world, and every one of those wretchedly inbred British peers who devoted their lives to sexually abusing their kitchen staff, fox hunting, and oppressing the Irish is unfortunately unsurprising, and I would hope this proposal is immediately and resoundingly rejected. But I am certain it will not be. Monicasdude 04:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This is unencyclopedic. Transwiki to Wikiquote. Royboy crashfan 04:22, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki per above --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 04:27, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki If anything, I would say that the quote is notable. Perhaps it deserves an article. Maxamegalon2000 05:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki - there could perhaps be an article written on Mother Pollard but this isn't it. --Hyperbole 06:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki this quote, or (better) write a genuine article on the subject. Just zis Guy you know? 11:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki and rewrite per all. Alba 13:27, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki -M^ask 01:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki. I agree with Monicasdude that the topic is notable, but this article is just a quote at this point. Mangojuice 20:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki, this is ridiculous. — Mar. 30, '06 [07:13] <freakofnur_xture |talk>
Transwiki per nom.--Adam ^(talk) 16:43, 30 March 2006 (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.