Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plot of Les Misérables
This is Les Misérables! Have you ever seen how thick the unabridged book is? You cannot do justice to even a summary of the plot in the space of an overall article on the book because a proper plot summary would overwhelm the article. And it's not as if the book is too unimportant not to have more than one article about it. This is the book that, when first published in installments, soldiers in the American Civil War waited to read as each new installment was shipped across the Atlantic. It's one of the most well-known classics of French literature (at least to the English-speaking world). What is the overwhelming reason why this plot summary must be included in the main article? A bureaucratic rule?!? This is a classic, classic situation where  should be applied, but you could also apply guidelines having to do with inordinate space for certain sections of articles. I believe the Wikipedia servers can handle this
— User:Noroton, 03:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)