Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Growing Up In Tier 3000

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The result was Delete both. Xoloz 16:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Growing Up In Tier 3000

"Obscure novel" per article, by unknown author, Amazon sales rating below 2.2 million. NawlinWiki 03:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• Update Adding to this AFD author Felix C. Gotschalk, who apparently only ever published this one novel, and had about three stories anthologized in the 1970s.[1]. 99 unique Ghits for "Felix C. Gotschalk". NawlinWiki 03:44, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete both. The book has no assertion of notability, other than it tried to copy the stlye of A Clockwork Orange. Felix C. Gotschalk fails WP:BIO. Thε Halo ^Θ 11:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete book as per nom. Unecided re its author. Dlyons493 Talk 11:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment There's a claim of 23 novellas at [2] - a small number of these seem verifiable via Google. If he were actually the author of a book, and many short stories as well, then that would seem enough to keep him - verifiability is an issue though. But I don't see his single book as intrinsically notable enough to keep it. Dlyons493 Talk 18:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep Not sure about this one but the arguments given here are way too weak to convince me. 99 unique Ghits strikes me as not so bad for an author who wrote in the 1970s. Similarly, the Amazon rank is of course extremely low since it relates to current sales (which are naturally horribly low for a 30 year old sci-fi book). The fact that the author's short stories are indeed part of anthologies sounds to me like an indication of (arguably limited) notoriety. 82.231.209.148 18:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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