Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George whitman

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The result of the debate was KEEP or MERGE. Of course, it isn't possible to merge to a red link, and merging to Sylvia Beach doesn't seem that appropriate to me. So I'll leave it alone. dbenbenn | talk 16:28, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

George whitman

Thoroughly unnotable. Nicely written, though... Smoddy (t) (e) 22:59, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, not notable. Megan1967 00:57, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge and redirect to Shakespeare and Co or Shakespeare and Company. (I realize that there is a NYC chain by the same name, but I'm not sure if one is related to the other or how.) That Paris store was a pretty important nexus, and certainly the proprietor played a role in the Beats, so I'd hate to see the information go into the bit bucket. Geogre 05:09, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The bookstore is VERY notable; the first incarnation published Joyce's Ulysses, and was a major center for Anglophone writers and artists in Paris. Perhaps the George Whitman info should be merged with the Sylvia Beach entry--these could then either become a Shakespeare and Company article, or Shakespeare and Company could redirect to Beach. BTfromLA 09:10, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep or merge, if verifiable. (The remarks about the store generally, I can vouch for; I have firends who've slept on tht floor. His being proprietor I'm not so sure of, I thought the store was now owned by City Lights, out of San Francisco.) I would say that anyone who was more than briefly proprietor of the most famous English-language bookstore on the European continent is notable. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:37, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

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