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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 07:09, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Looks to be a point-by-point plot summary of a relatively widely-received novel, but I'm not sure this kind of coverage is necessary—we don't employ it for the most popular fictional works, or the bible. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 06:51, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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delete this has been stuck in a redirect/recreate/repeat war for a while now. It should be deleted and salted as non-notable fancruft and wordcruft. A more detailed plot summary would be nice on the main article but this is way too excessive. Dronebogus (talk) 07:01, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I finished reading the novel recently and had been consulting this page, because some of what happens in the book is not so straightforward. It's a useful resource to have a page with this much detail, but it may not be appropriate for Wikipedia instead of some other site. I think it would be better to have a shorter summary on the article for the book itself, rather than this separate page. This summary could still be ~4,000 words long and split up by the five sections of the book; but this present page is more like 8,000. I don't know if I would be the person to cut things down that much, though. And so many things happen in the book (while as the main page says, it does not have a conventional plot) that it would be a difficult editorial consideration as to which are the most important and which to leave out. myfavoriteboxer (talk • contribs) 15:11, 25 Feb 2022 (UTC)
- @Myfavoriteboxer: there is actually a wiki for the novel. Hopefully that might be more your thing. Wikipedia’s job isn’t to catalog intricate details of fiction unless they’re subject to extensive scholarly analysis. Dronebogus (talk) 21:14, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete as per nom and Dronebogus. Utter fancruft. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 16:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect (and protect to prevent reverting); I think the history here is worth preserving and redirects are cheap. Elli (talk | contribs) 01:11, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not enough sources to warrant a dedicated article. Nothing sourced to retain. czar 02:34, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I am super disappointed. What did it hurt to keep it? I am about 80% through the book and found it super useful to check the summaries out. At least archive it somewhere or something! Like, literally, it did not hurt anybody to keep it, and many found it useful. It was a great resource. 69.92.107.142 (talk) 05:59, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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