Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swamp Man (novel)

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The result was redirect to Donald_Goines#Novels. MBisanz ^talk 00:38, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Swamp Man (novel)[edit]

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Entirety of article is an unsourced plot summary; tagged for notabillity since 2012. Hustlecat ^{do it!} 00:01, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:12, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:12, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Donald_Goines#Novels. It's unfortunate, but the fact is that most of Goines's novels are fairly obscure and never really gained much coverage. He had a definite following and he's obviously influential, but his work was largely niche and in his later career he churned the novels out so quickly that the whole "laws of diminishing returns" thing came into effect. It's really only later down the line that his work started becoming popular and even then, largely the Kenyatta series. The reason why I'm mentioning this is that this book isn't one of his popular ones and the media seems to have largely ignored it, only mentioning it briefly in relation to his work as a whole. I had a lot of trouble finding sourcing for the overall Kenyatta series article and for many of his works in general, including this one. I thought that I'd redirected this to his article, but it must have slipped my notice. TL;DNR, I couldn't find any sources for this a year ago and there aren't any now, so redirecting is the only real option here. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:23, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I must have thought really hard about it and just forgotten to do it, since it looks like I missed a bunch no the list. I'll try to clean those up and save them if possible, otherwise I'll just redirect them to his bibliography. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:24, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 04:17, 16 December 2014 (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.