Talk:Burn Baby Burn (poem)

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being about a subject that was invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally and for lack of asserted importance, because... (your reason here) --Forbesbriana (talk) 05:17, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

I feel that this page should not be deleted because it's an important and very relevant source. This poem was written by Marvin Jackmon, a poet that help America understand how African-Americans were being mistreated, though equality was supposed to be a factor that all are entitled to. This poem is fairly popular and hard to find, which is only being used for educational purposes only. This also a project required to complete a wikipedia page for my ES 440 course.

• @Forbesbriana: - maybe, but I don't see any evidence that the poem is notable enough to get its own Wikipedia article. It's actually very unusual for short poems to have their own Wikipedia article - mostly the article on the poet will discuss their work in general. You would need to add a lot of citations and supporting evidence demonstrating that this poem is notable. In addition, this article simply presents your opinions on the poem without evidence, and may well be a copyright violation if the text is copyrighted. I'm sorry but also I don't understand what you mean about an ES 440 course. Blythwood (talk) 05:26, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

@Blythwood:, I removed the copyvio material and added refs. See the section below. I also left a message on Forbesbriana's talk page.... Thanks for your pateince while this gets sorted out. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 05:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Prod removed, I am a fan of this article!

I'm a fan of this article, and I am going to find the sources to back it up. In one of the Google book refs, it says that Amiri Baraka published the poem. That's a serious claim of notability. I'd appreciate some time to find the refs. If not, take it to AfD, but I am fairly certian that I am going to find an absolute pile of notable refs for this poem. I have a hunch, based on the two good refs found in a couple of minutes, that this is a sleeper poem! I'm willing to go to the library for this one-- that place with the books where nobody goes anymore. We have four very fine university libraries in my city, and I shall come back with a bushell of references. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 05:35, 22 April 2016 (UTC)