The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Most participants seem to agree that the article is sufficiently notable, and as deletion is not a substitute for cleanup, I'm going to close this as "keep". –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:38, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tours of the Black Clock[edit]

No context, no assertion of notability, no source, and I'm worried about the summary given. If Hitler and Einstein are so involved in the story, why are they not feature in the summary? I'm not hell-bent on deletion, but notability has to be met, and sources have to be provided. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 19:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The article just sucks. But Erickson is a very notable writer, and this was a very well-received, often reviewed book. Note the recognitions for this book on the author's own page. Let someone who's read it and is familiar with Erickson's work generally improve it. It's barely a week old. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 21:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or severe re-write I think this article meets all creteria to notability and was just written in a bad way with no sourcesIrunongames • play 00:17, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:06, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:11, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge the first two sentences with the author's article. The rest should be trashed. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Hey Headbomb, thanks for your openmindedness--this is one you may have to take back...;) I don't know that much about this guy or his work, but fortunately Google News is well aware of the importance of the novel: look at the plethora of references from the NYTimes and LATimes here. Since he's not a very literary author, there's no hits for the novel in the MLA, but there's a dozen on him as an author. Herr Wolfowitz, I think you have a job to do here. Go rewrite that article! ChildofMidnight no doubt will be glad to help you, though he'd probably refuse to use articles such as this, since it was published on a left-wing blog. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 04:22, 13 July 2009 (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.