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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 Delete. With respect to the other mentioned articles, you may want to consider (besides editorial solutions) also proposed deletions, referring to this AfD. --Tikiwont (talk) 10:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confessor (Sword of Truth)

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I am listing this article for deletion for the following three reasons:

1. It is not notable. The topic is an obscure concept in an equally obscure fantasy series. The novel is already listed on Wikipedia, so perhaps what little material can be salvaged (see 3. below) could be moved there.

2. It is not written in appropriate tone, possibly because...

3. It is rampant plagiarism; most of the text is simply copied verbatim from the original fiction. I do not have the originals at hand (if I did, I'd have opted for SD) but as far as I recall, this is copyrighted stuff.

Freederick (talk) 04:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Gaaah! I only saw this one article (Confessor) that I nominated for deletion, plus the main article about the series. What you have uncovered is frightening. Still, I have mixed feelings about this. Apparently somebody out there cares enough to put in all this misguided labor. Perhaps some remnants can mercifully be incorporated into the main article. The writing is atrocious, though; if this is copied from the original novels (and it probably is--I tried to read one of them a very long time ago) then this is one author whose books I'll never buy. Freederick (talk) 17:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I don't have a copy of Wizard's First Rule handy, but a lot of the phrases used here ring very familiar. And the articles Pete.Hurd points out just make me cry... many of them cover trivial plot elements, and every one I looked at contained text which looked like it was paraphrased directly from the books. I smell a mass AfD in the near future. WikiProject Sword Of Truth was supposed to clean this stuff up, but seems to have gone dead.

    Note that I'm specifically not recommending a merge, as this article is heavily tainted by plagiarism. Mentioning Confessors in an article on the series is appropriate, but none of the content here is clearly safe to reuse. Zetawoof(ζ) 05:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Delete In an article this size, with that much in-universe material, it is nearly impossible to not quote directly from the text, or at the very least re-arrange the wording used in the book(s). There's also a fair bit in there that I'm pretty sure isn't in any of the books, leaving it to be pure fabrication. Confessors are a major part of the history tied up in the series, and if this had any literary commentary like it should, I would probably be at least neutral on the issue. However, it doesn't, and there is very little worth salvaging. Hersfold (t/a/c) 06:13, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Additional comment on the massive list of articles above: Note that I haven't looked at any of those, having only read the Confessor article, but I would not nominate several of those for deletion without making a very significant effort to clean them up first. You've got every one of the main characters in there (some twice), and a fair number of major places as well. I do agree that many of them have absolutely no reason to be here at all - Michael Cypher only had a relatively minor role in the first book, where he was killed almost immediately upon appearing in person. I know you're not nominating them now, I just wanted to throw that out in case someone felt like making a mass nomination based on your list. Hersfold (t/a/c) 06:13, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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