Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreams of a Playa
The question isn't whether the article is harming Wikipedia - the question is whether it is |notable. Perhaps in the future, this will become a world-wide highly regarded, important piece of work, but at the moment it is not notable, and by that criteria, an article about it does not belong on Wikipedia. ''Thoughtless users on wikipedia'' are not trying to stop the blossoming minds of anyone - however, we have criteria for inclusion on wikipedia which do not include ''"Allowing blossoming minds to have a forum"'' - there are more appropriate places for this, such as blogs and the like. While the book is unpublished, and obviously has not received reviews and commentary from eliable|reliable sources, it remains unnotable from the point of view of wikipedia's criteria - this is not to belittle the work of the young adults working on it, this is just the policy followed here. My suggestion is to keep working on it, get it published, get into the NY Times (or London Times, or other world-reknown paper or website) best seller list - then no one will say it is not notable... '''but it is not notable yet'''. Thank you
— User:Phantomsteve, 20:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOTABLE||WP:R (Wikipedia:Notability)