Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cognitive Estrangement in Latinx Speculative Fiction

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The result was delete. Sandstein 09:06, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cognitive Estrangement in Latinx Speculative Fiction

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"Cognitive Estrangement in Latinx Speculative Fiction" is almost certainly much too specific for a notable article topic. The article is also not written from a neutral point of view, reads like an essay, and uses a lot of jargon. Chess (talk) (please use {{ping|Chess}} on reply) 17:56, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom. This is the kind of article that gets created when an academic course requires its students to contribute to Wikipedia. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:18, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is an essay not an article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Summarize and merge, or redirect: looks to be a notable academic term, but the writing leaves a lot to be desired. A shorter summary would explain what it is, based on what academics are saying about it. Currently, it just reads like several different essays offering their own opinions on it. I believe there's a good paragraph to be written about this, and merged either to the author who coined the term, or an article about race in speculative fiction. (It is odd to me that I can find lots of articles about Gender in speculative fiction and Women in speculative fiction and LGBT themes in speculative fiction, but I can't find an equivalent for race and ethnicity.) Shooterwalker (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Heavy-hearted delete. Interesting though this is, and though it's clear that this isn't simply an academic essay masquerading as an encyclopaedia article, it's still original research describing a non-notable concept. I don't think it would be an overstatement or oversimplification to say that Jennifer0327 could have created a valuable article on cognitive estrangement (currently a redirect) or Latinx speculative fiction using many of the same sources (and I hope they do create one or both, though I suppose the semester's over now), but in trying to tease out the connections between the two they've veered beyond the territory of the encyclopaedic. (@Metropolitan90: For what it's worth, I don't think it's at all fair to say that articles like these are the inevitable result of university projects—most, I think, cause no trouble and some no doubt produce good articles; this class has also produced Chicanafuturism and Decolonization in Latinx culture, both of which need work but are certainly notable topics.) – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:04, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll agree that some university projects do produce some good articles. However, an article such as this one would be unlikely to have ever been added to Wikipedia outside the context of a university project. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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