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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The result was Keep (nomination withdrawn). I am closing this nomination which I started. My objections have been addressed, and no other delete/merge vote remains. Thank you to all who participated. (non-admin closure) Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:27, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Fictional sword. I've prodded this with "No evidence this fictional object passes GNG/NFICTION." a while back, and User:Toughpigs deprodded it with WP:NEXIST: "Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain", "The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction". Unfortunately, a year later, the article still has next to zero when it comes to proving reception/significance of this object. Aside from one sentence in the lead, it's pure plot summary plus a mostly unreferenced and ORish "In popular culture" section. Sadly, I can't access the first book outside snippet view, even with Z-library. The snippets from Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain. don't suggest anything that goes beyond a plot summary (and there are many false hits, as in, the discussion of Stormbringer (novel), for example). The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction does have two sentences of analysis, but that's it, two sentences: By the time he came to the Elric stories with their central image of the semi-autonomous sword 'Stormbringer' Moorcock was able to invest this object, intrinsic to the plot and indigenous to the world represented in the text, with the necessary symbolic currency. It was meant to represent his frequently repeated theme 'how mankind's wish-fantasies can bring about the destruction of... part of mankind'". I am afraid that's just not enough to warrant keeping a stand-alone page for this niche fictional object. I suggest redirecting this to the titular novel, and the referenced single sentence of analysis that exists in the current article can be merged as well. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:41, 15 February 2022 (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.