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Weak delete As a fan of Francis E. Dec's writings, I really wanted to keep this one, but the sources I could find didn't convince me that he meets GNG. The
book cited in the article is definitely substantive coverage, and
this book by
Donna Kossy also covers him, although I don't know to what extent. Our article on Kossy calls it "the first biography of Francis E. Dec", so if we trust that, it's probably reasonably detailed. But those two sources seem to be all there is outside of zines, fansites and blogs. So I'll have to go with delete unless more sources turn up.
SpicyMilkBoy (
talk)
19:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - I was skeptical at first, but Google turned up 70,800,000 results - among them was
the book "The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity" by Jeffrey Sconce, published in 2019 by Duke University Press which cited Dec well over 10x. That tells us there is long term encyclopedic value in keeping and expanding the article. There is
an article in
Medium (website) but I'm not all that familiar with the source. There is also
this book and
this one, both of which cite the WP article about him, and that tells me we need to make sure the article is accurate. Just my nickel's worth.
AtsmeTalk📧19:19, 2 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Adding another citation: Amiran, Eyal. "THE PORNOCRATIC BODY IN THE AGE OF NETWORKED PARANOIA." Cultural Critique, no. 100, 2018, p. 134+. Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine,
[1]
Medium is a
blog site, and those two books seem to be generated by bots that scrape Wikipedia articles. The Technical Delusion is definitely a good source though, and I've put in a request at
WP:RX for the Kossy book I mentioned above... if its coverage of Dec is substantial I might change my vote.
SpicyMilkBoy (
talk)
21:52, 2 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep I believe he meets GNG based on being profiled in
the Sconce book and the multiple other sources noted by Sconce. This is one of those folks who falls into the pre-Google age as far as sources go, but he definitely was a high profile lunatic in his time. I’m finding limited caselaw on him, but google scholar popped up two appeals that were denied, can’t find the lower court cases, though:
[2] Someone transcribed his legal appeals
here. I don’t have access to paid legal databases, but he did seek cert at the US Supreme Court in 1961-62 and it was denied twice. There’s an off-wiki article on him that might have been a previously deleted one here that maybe folks can check the sources on. He seems to have had a brief cult following
noted hereMontanabw(talk)18:23, 16 November 2019 (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
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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.
Weak delete As a fan of Francis E. Dec's writings, I really wanted to keep this one, but the sources I could find didn't convince me that he meets GNG. The
book cited in the article is definitely substantive coverage, and
this book by
Donna Kossy also covers him, although I don't know to what extent. Our article on Kossy calls it "the first biography of Francis E. Dec", so if we trust that, it's probably reasonably detailed. But those two sources seem to be all there is outside of zines, fansites and blogs. So I'll have to go with delete unless more sources turn up.
SpicyMilkBoy (
talk)
19:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - I was skeptical at first, but Google turned up 70,800,000 results - among them was
the book "The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity" by Jeffrey Sconce, published in 2019 by Duke University Press which cited Dec well over 10x. That tells us there is long term encyclopedic value in keeping and expanding the article. There is
an article in
Medium (website) but I'm not all that familiar with the source. There is also
this book and
this one, both of which cite the WP article about him, and that tells me we need to make sure the article is accurate. Just my nickel's worth.
AtsmeTalk📧19:19, 2 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Adding another citation: Amiran, Eyal. "THE PORNOCRATIC BODY IN THE AGE OF NETWORKED PARANOIA." Cultural Critique, no. 100, 2018, p. 134+. Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine,
[1]
Medium is a
blog site, and those two books seem to be generated by bots that scrape Wikipedia articles. The Technical Delusion is definitely a good source though, and I've put in a request at
WP:RX for the Kossy book I mentioned above... if its coverage of Dec is substantial I might change my vote.
SpicyMilkBoy (
talk)
21:52, 2 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep I believe he meets GNG based on being profiled in
the Sconce book and the multiple other sources noted by Sconce. This is one of those folks who falls into the pre-Google age as far as sources go, but he definitely was a high profile lunatic in his time. I’m finding limited caselaw on him, but google scholar popped up two appeals that were denied, can’t find the lower court cases, though:
[2] Someone transcribed his legal appeals
here. I don’t have access to paid legal databases, but he did seek cert at the US Supreme Court in 1961-62 and it was denied twice. There’s an off-wiki article on him that might have been a previously deleted one here that maybe folks can check the sources on. He seems to have had a brief cult following
noted hereMontanabw(talk)18:23, 16 November 2019 (UTC)reply
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