Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas and the Higs

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The result was redirect‎ to Philip K. Dick bibliography. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nicholas and the Higs

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Article fails GNG with sole citation being a minor note in a biography. It's also an unpublished failed attempt at a book whose contents haven't survived beyond a short synopsis, making it highly unlikely to ever achieve proper notability. Content could be placed into authors main article instead. Macktheknifeau (talk) 11:34, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Philip K. Dick, and merge in the content to the latter page, as the OP noted. I'd say that's the least we can do for this article, as a quick search on this topic only finds a couple sources here, here, here, here, here, but that's it, as most of the results from a "Nicholas and the Higs" Philip K. Dick Google Search don't seem to bring up reputable sources.--Historyday01 (talk) 13:17, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:55, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Hopefully this relist will yield more discussion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Aoidh (talk) 07:57, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak keep or redirect at minimum. I am having trouble finding great sources to rescue this, but it is a valid redirect and probably we can find enough to rescue this. I'll ping User:ReaderofthePack and User:Daranios who IIRC both has a good track record digging some interesting sources for this kind of stuff. PS. Sources: self-published sadly, I only get snippet view but it may have something (I see mentions in several pages?); this book, also reliable, seems to have at least a paragraph (but snippet view again...); another book mentioning this (in a footnote or a list? is [1]). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:25, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Two of those are available on Open Library: To the High Castle is the one I linked to in my comment above; this is the best source I can find. Only Apparently Real includes the book in a complete list of PKD novels, with some info on the history of the manuscript. The snippet you're seeing from The Selected Letters is from the same letter of PKD that is partially quoted in the article. I can provide the full quote if requested, but it doesn't provide a great deal more information. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 07:59, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Guerillero Parlez Moi 18:02, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Historyday01 and CastJared: In case you still think a redirect is the best option in spite of the found secondary source, wouldn't Philip K. Dick bibliography be the closer topic as compared to the Philip K. Dick article itself? Daranios (talk) 15:11, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, Philip K. Dick bibliography would be a better redirect target. Historyday01 (talk) 15:24, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Uh, yeah, the redirect target is Philip K. Dick bibliography. Agreed. CastJared (talk) 16:31, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect seems ok, I'm not seeing much else about the "treatment for the book". Someone might eventually finish the work or rewrite it or what have you. Now, nothing we can use for GNG found. Oaktree b (talk) 19:20, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Who knows, a lost copy might turn up somewhere. The author's been gone for 40 some years, still a while before the copyright expires anyway. If and when, we can re-create the article then. Oaktree b (talk) 19:22, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Oaktree b: "nothing we can use for GNG found": But what about the secondary sources which have been found and discussed so far? Daranios (talk) 15:11, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'd prefer a redirect. Oaktree b (talk) 15:57, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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