Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Loving Sander

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 Delete, with no prejudice to creating article on the author. Espresso Addict 16:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Loving Sander

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I can't fond any review of this novel. Its rank on Amazon.com is 1,793,947.[1] The author has appeared and replaced the plot summary with the publisher's blurb.[2] Without any 3rd-party sources there's no way to make sure the article is balanced and NPOV. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 04:59, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this article should be deleted. It fails to meet the notability and verifiability principles. It has not received 'substantial coverage in reliable secondary sources'. There are no views of literary scholars or historians. It consists purely of original research - a personal (subjective) observation and interpretation. Strichmann 07:42, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

There would seem to be two options if we delete this article and Dares to Speak.

1. create a page on Geraci, mentioning all his works. 2. mention both with a very short summary on the Paidika page - where Geraci is noted as editor. Most of the content in Dares to Speak seems to have been published originally in Paidika. I favour option 2.

Before you go ahead, Will, why not reference this on the Wikipedia article watch page? Tony 08:26, 18 October 2007 (UTC)Tony

Option 2 could be fine - provided no summaries are given. E.g. simply state that "Mr Geraci is the author of 'Loving Sander' and the editor of 'Dares to Speak'" - or something along those lines. This will certainly avoid the potential problems of lack of balance / no secondary sources re. the summary. Strichmann 18:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nominator, SqueakBox 20:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Somewhat notable member of niche publishing genre. Almost zero mainstream coverage, and there are 1,793,946 books regular folks are more interested in. Enrico Dirac 23:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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