Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
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No real content other than the list of chapters which cannot possibly be each described as a section given time. Also it arguably falls under What Wikipedia is not since it's akin to a list of facts or links. But even without the TOC list, the book does not seem especially noteworthy (~5000 Googles). Master Thief GarrettTalk 10:46, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Delete the contents and redirect the title to the book's author Robert Spencer. But in case that counts as a keep under VfD rules, my vote is delete the title too. SlimVirgin (talk) 11:35, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. There are 199 articles in the Book stub cat, many of them more obscure than this one; so why is this one being singled out? If the author article is worthy of retention, then it is a fairly natural progression to wikify his book titles. These red links then cry out for articles. It would be silly for these to be redirects back to the author page. That's how Wikipedia grows, or at least one of the ways. Not liking what a book says is not really a good reason for listing its article here; in fact it is a very bad reason. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:46, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- The reason I'm voting delete is that the author of this article has created a bunch of POV stubs, including only publishers' blurbs, chapter lists, sometimes quotes from the authors, and pictures of the book covers. They're free advertising for the publishers and hopelessly POV data dumps: violations of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. They could be made to conform to NPOV, but it would be a lot of work for someone. It therefore makes sense to redirect the title to the author's page until an editor actually wants to write a neutral article about the book. SlimVirgin (talk) 11:53, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- How is a contents list of a book in breach of our POV policy? Granted the chapter titles reflect the POV of the book, but that is an entirely different matter. I cannot see any merit to this argument, I'm afraid. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:58, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- It is POV because it is lacking a paragraph critiquing the views in the book. Radiant_>|< 12:07, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- It's the lack of any balancing material that's the problem. If it were a neutral article that just happened to list the TOC at the end, it would be okay, but when the TOC's the only thing, and the chapter titles are things like "A Muslim by any other name blows up just the same" (this is from one of the Ann Coulter titles), there's a serious POV issue. SlimVirgin (talk) 12:12, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- How is a contents list of a book in breach of our POV policy? Granted the chapter titles reflect the POV of the book, but that is an entirely different matter. I cannot see any merit to this argument, I'm afraid. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:58, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- The reason I'm voting delete is that the author of this article has created a bunch of POV stubs, including only publishers' blurbs, chapter lists, sometimes quotes from the authors, and pictures of the book covers. They're free advertising for the publishers and hopelessly POV data dumps: violations of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. They could be made to conform to NPOV, but it would be a lot of work for someone. It therefore makes sense to redirect the title to the author's page until an editor actually wants to write a neutral article about the book. SlimVirgin (talk) 11:53, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- Strong Keep Book pages are absolutely relevant to Wikipedia.--CltFn 11:56, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Delete content, for starters, since copy/pasting a table of contents is copyvio, not to mention unencyclopedic. Redirect to author for the time being. Radiant_>|< 12:07, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- Strong Keep but also cleanup. WP needs an article, not a table of contents. Book is certainly notable, with a noteworthy author, a real publisher, and a decent Amazon rank (~15,000). The book itself might be POV, but there's no reason that an article on it must be. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:08, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)