Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/The 48 Laws of Power


 * 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. —LrdChaos (talk) 17:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

The 48 Laws of Power
Copyright violation. ~ UDScott 13:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 14:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC).


 * Delete, unless trimmed to a much smaller set of pithy quotes - with full sourcing info. ~ UDScott 13:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Obviously, as a copyvio cannot stay in its present form--Poetlister 15:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above.--Jusjih 16:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not sure that there's any good way to quote the 48 laws without being a copyright violation. The book includes quite a bit more to along with each of the laws, but what's quoted here is basically the essence of it and is likely to represent a copyright violation under just about any circumstances. It might be possible to quote excerpts from the full chapters, but listing the laws like this is a Bad Idea. —LrdChaos (talk) 21:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless per UDScott as above. Tyrenius 03:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 11:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with LrdChaos. Note that The 48 Laws of Power quotes the entire list, which certainly violates factor #4 of the "fair use" doctrine, in that it could have a significant impact on the "the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work", and probably violates #3 as well, because although the portion of the text isn't large, it is, as LrdChaos says, the entire essence of the work. (Of course, that's Wikipedia's problem, not ours.) This is a problem with any work whose primary selling feature is a special list that will only be revealed to you if you get the book. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I've deleted the list from the WP article as a copyvio. There is currently a debate on this on the article talk page. Participation welcome. Tyrenius 09:54, 8 April 2007 (UTC)


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