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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 01:37, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The lead section merely repeats information from Public domain. The rest is an arbitrary collection of links to articles on books that are in the public domain. There are thousands of books that could potentially be listed here. If we really want to list all public domain books, this should be handled with a category instead. In fact, such a category already exists. Hairy Dude (talk) 14:09, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Belatedly informed sole contributor User:P2prules. I misinterpreted the "inform AfD monitors" part of the AfD instructions and somehow thought it also informed contributors. Hairy Dude (talk) 17:21, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete and redirect to public domain. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:36, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Agree, page should be merged/redirected to public domain. Meatsgains (talk) 18:10, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:57, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I actually thought about nominating this about a week ago. Fails WP:SALAT--Savonneux (talk) 07:27, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: The main difference here is that the page seems to be a more thorough list of books in the public domain, but that's something that might be best served by a category designation, like Category:Books in the public domain in the United States or something along those lines. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:25, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The problem is that things that are public domain in certain countries might not be public domain in others and it just becomes a mess.--Savonneux (talk) 14:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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