Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Solomon Key
This is soothsaying, speculation, maybe even "original research", but not an encyclopedic article with actual facts. Please come again when the book has actually been released or any actual facts can be reported. zerofoks 23:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Keep No need to delete the article, speculation can be removed, and actual facts added as they appear. Tnikkel 00:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- If you delete all the speculation there is now, there won't be anything left. --zerofoks 00:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- At the very least you would have that it is a future book by Dan Brown, which is already enough for an article that will grow in the future. Secondly, it should be pointed out that much of the speculation is not Wikipedians speculating, but speculation that has already been recorded elsewhere, and hence is verifiable. Finally, there are many facts, the relation to Kryptos is fact (the coords of Kryptos were on the dust jacket of his previous book), the web quest is all fact as it comes from the publishers website, etc. Whether these relate to The Solomon Key is debatable, but outside sources have made the connection, not Wikipedians speculating. Tnikkel 00:37, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- None of that is "fact". It's pure media hype generated for something that doesn't even exist, yet. I see no reason how Wikipedians should report on this in a NPOV-manner suitable for an encyclopedia. And no, you would not have at the very least the "fact" that the book will be out in 2006 because you don't know it will be. It might be, but then again, it might be not. It's just a plan. --zerofoks 00:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)