Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hollym

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete -- Francs2000 | Talk 12:15, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hollym

they have a website at hollym.com and as you can see it's just an ordinary publisher selling few books online. Don't see any importance. The user just spams himself, his books, and his publisher. See also: Roadmap to Korean, Faces of Korea & Richard Harris (writer)

• delete --Richhil 13:24, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable publisher of Korea-related books, with a (small) international presence. Certainly at least as notable as many other articles in Category:Book publishers. -- Visviva 16:30, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: advert. Wile E. Heresiarch 19:28, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I am about to try my Amazon test. I am going to search for books published by this publisher on Amazon.com. If they have published any books with an Amazon sales rank number less than 200,000, then I consider them a publisher of real interest to English-speakers and will vote to keep. Here goes. 167 books listed. Sort by: bestselling. Top is: Minjung's Pocket English-Korean & Korean-English Dictioanry [sic], ISBN: 0930878027, Amazon.com Sales Rank: #154,297 in Books. Next listed is: Korea: Tradition and Transformation : A History of the Korean People by Andrew C. Nahm, ISBN: 0930878566, Amazon.com Sales Rank: #606,866 in Books. The fact that 167 books are listed should somehow count for something. I conclude that they pass my test and they are a "real" publisher and of legitimate interest to English-speakers with an interest in Korea. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:31, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment Amazon are not a directory of books in print. Amazon are a distributor. 129.215.37.37 13:34, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, real publisher, real books, valid claim to being a significant publisher of English-language books about Korea. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:31, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Genuine (although small) publisher with a focus on Korea. Subject matter is esoteric by nature and thus they have only a small presence in the West Pilatus 10:46, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete advertising. JamesBurns 03:47, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per Dpsmith's Amazon test, although I am incredibly opposed to the idea that something should have to prove itself "of interest to English-speakers" in order to be included. Kappa 13:35, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

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