Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Brown Man in Russia


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The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 13:06, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

A Brown Man in Russia

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Previously deleted, per this discussion. A year later, a Google, JSTOR search and on News does not appear to have anything that would meet WP:GNG or WP:BKCRIT. Snowycats (talk) 03:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Snowycats (talk) 03:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete: per nom. I grieve in stereo (talk) 04:00, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep: Search notes at least two credible publications reporting on the book including a recent feature in the Moscow Times linked on the wiki from about one month ago. That alone should meet the first criteria of WP:BKCRIT ("the book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself"). I'm also seeing the book and related articles cross-referenced in multiple academic settings & journals, including as curriculum matter at multiple American universities (MIT, Stanford, UCLA), meeting another WP:BKCRIT criteria ("The book is, or has been, the subject of instruction at two or more schools, colleges, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country"). Seems to meet notability criteria for WP:BKCRIT on two standalone criteria. Formosachang89 04:04, 26 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Please do not take signings of other people and trying to impersonate them (like Dream Focus' one in this case). Note: this is also the article's creator. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 20:09, 28 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete The keep voter should have read the sources in the article first (Moscow Times that he/she mentioned is already there). The first one is an interview with the writer, and the only non-interview part was "“A Brown Man in Russia” is also a great chance for any reader to take an honest look at your own Russian experience – whatever ethnicity you are – and compare how you first behaved to how you are now.". Not WP:SIGCOV. The second source is just a word by word copy and paste of the book's Chapter 11. Nothing else comes up besides an unreliable site a Jordan Russia Center blog. I also failed to find the info that it was the subject matter on the universities directly (the MIT link just offers an interview and nothing else indicating the coverage on MIT itself and it wouldn't make much sense as the book is "relatively" new). Doesn't meet WP:BKCRIT and WP:GNG, no significant coverage in independent sources to be found. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 20:03, 28 December 2019 (UTC)


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