Talk:GetAbstract International Book Award

I've removed the clean-up flag after there have been no comments. The article looks clean to me.

Nominate for deletion
This award does not seem notable. A search finds
 * - German language Press announcement from getAbstract about the 2009 awards which lists finalists and that the award will be on October 14/15, 2009. Not significant for WP notability but I learned that http://www.getAbstract.com/Bookaward exists as a URL.
 * - German language blog or webzine - Author mentions he's a finalist for the 2008 award.
 * - English language serving press announcement from John Wiley & Sons about the Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets award.
 * German language press announcement from an author about their finalist nomination for 2008.
 * German language notice on a book industry site about the 2008 finalists. Unfortunately, this does not cite a source but is worded very similarly to getAbstract's own press announcement meaning it's likely not "independent coverage."
 * German language press announcement from getAbstract listiing the 2008 finalists.
 * German language press announcement from getAbstract listing the 2008 winners.
 * Rolf Dobelli of getabstract.com lists the English language finalists. (I did not check amazon.de but assume he did the same there for the German finalists)

So far I have not seen any independent coverage of the award itself. The only mentions are getAbstract press releases plus releases from authors/publishers that are finalists or winners. I'll likely take this up to AfD unless evidence of notability can be found. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 06:12, 5 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd like to be able to keep this article but we need evidence of notability. Please see Notability and also Notability (organizations and companies). We are looking for someone other than getAbstract themselves, an author or publisher who has been nominated or won, who has written about the getAbstract International Book Award. The more removed, and the more they write about the award, the better. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 06:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Update - on 14:07, 5 August 2009 Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk | contribs) removed the WP:PROD with the comment "pointy nom, remove prod". Pointy nom presumably refers to WP:POINT which does not seem to be a remedy for the article's apparent non-notability but does make this a contested deletion per WP:PROD. As this is a low traffic article updated by editors that do not seem to be active day-to-day I'll leave the article in this state for a couple of weeks before nominating for AfD. That'll give interested editors time to notice and respond before the seven day AfD clock starts ticking. I'll also continue to look for evidence that could support notability. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 20:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have hatted the article for notability. An award does not fit neatly into one of the categories offered by Notability and so I used "Product" as a best fit though the general Notability category and guideline also applies. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 20:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ref1 - The article's first reference is a German language press release about the new award and also announcing the first winners. The announcement does not mention the Frankfurt Book Fair and so it's not clear if the awarding was done during the fair. This press release provides useful background material but is not evidence of notability as it's not independent coverage. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 21:02, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I have added the reference to Frankfurt Book Fair's official website, where the award is anounced. Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest and most important book fair.Rkonig (talk) 19:37, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I have added more referencs. getAbstract International Book Award mentioned on the websites of Wiley and Princeton University Press. Rkonig (talk) 15:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

More references added: The Boston Globe, Reuters, MIT Press, McGraw-Hill Catalogue, Association of American University Presses website, Hugendubel (one of the two major book retailers in Germany), World Federation of Exchanges, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal Switzeland edition (Handelszeitung). Notability established -- after having added several references (newspapers, magazines, book publishers) in the last seven weeks. I have therefore removed the notabiity flag. Rkonig (talk) 21:37, 21 August 2009 (UTC)