Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Speeches by Michael Crichton

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The result was merge to Michael Crichton. Selectively. Sandstein 15:33, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speeches by Michael Crichton[edit]

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As I said in my PROD nomination (which was removed by Andrew Davidson without explanation), this article has no hope of being more than synthesis of primary sources. No RS has ever discussed this as a coherent topic, and probably none ever will. JBL (talk) 22:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. JBL (talk) 22:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. JBL (talk) 22:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Selective merge to Michael Crichton. This is bascially a selective bibliography with too much detail. Retain the speeches that have received at least some third-party coverage - that looks to be no more than two or three of the lot. Condense into one or two sentences each, add as another subsection to Michael_Crichton#Life, lose the rest. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:51, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/Merge This is just a list and, per WP:NOTSYN, juxtaposition is not synthesis. Michael Crichton's work is the subject of considerable critical analysis and there's at least two books about it. Particular speeches such as the ones about global warming and the Gell-Mann amnesia effect have some specific notability – see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gell-Mann amnesia effect which settled on merger to the page in question. If we did merge further then it should go to the Michael Crichton bibliography. Andrew🐉(talk) 23:19, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Selective merge per Elmidae. ~ HAL333 23:22, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
(Nominator comment): a selective merge would be completely fine with me. --JBL (talk) 23:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Selective merge or just plain delete, as per others. Bondegezou (talk) 18:00, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Michael Crichton period. MissiYasında&& (talk) 19:19, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Selective merge to Michael Crichton, keeping only the speeches with media attention. Exadrid (talk) 22:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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