Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/First Things First


 * 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: Merge with Stephen Covey. — Jeff Q (talk) 11:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

First Things First
No quotes. &mdash;LrdChaos 00:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: merge with Stephen Covey (3 merges; no dissent). I've performed the merge. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete unless valid quotes are added. &mdash;LrdChaos 00:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge with Stephen Covey, per InvisibleSun. &mdash;LrdChaos 13:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge, now that quotes have been added, with Stephen Covey - InvisibleSun 03:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge with Covey, per Invisible Sun. As I've mentioned before, I'm against book articles except when the book is so famous that it needs a separate article (e.g., The Bible). With book articles, editors have a tendency to assume no further source information need be provided, which requires verifiers to read the entire work to find the quotes cited. (Proper sourcing should include page numbers and ISBNs.) Besides, they needlessly invite copyright infringement by practically begging to be expanded beyond a select set of quotes. Although there are two co-authors cited, their names are so de-emphasized on the cover that I think a note under the heading for this book's quotes in the Covey article would be sufficient. (I do note that the co-authors, A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca Merrill, have (only) one other book credit in the Library of Congress: Life Matters: Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time, and Money (2003). But given that First Things First was published in 1994, they seem to have been extremely junior partners at the time.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:21, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


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