Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Scandal in Belgravia (book)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Mz7 (talk) 00:17, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

A Scandal in Belgravia (book)

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Fails WP:NBOOK. Found only trivial reviews including the one ref. VMS Mosaic (talk) 10:14, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - won the Nero Award 1992 (WP:NBOOK #2). Eustachiusz (talk) 00:15, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:GNG. I've expanded the article a bit. Given this was published in 1991/2, pre-Internet era, much of the sources are going to be offline. The nom found only trivial reviews because, unfortunately, those that happen to be readily available via Google also happen to be less substantial ones. An advanced search (author plus title) on a US regional newspapers archive returns several results that Google doesn't; it's paywalled so I can't view fulltexts, but the opening paragraphs indicate reviews of some substance. When an emitus professor of English cites it as the best of the decade a quarter of a century after publication and it's won the Nero Award - all covered in the article, it's hard not to see it as notable. –146.199.151.33 (talk) 01:12, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * If the Nero Award is considered a 'major' literary award, then I withdraw the nomination. However, I can find nothing indicating that it qualifies as a 'major' award. I could not find it in the List of literary awards in which I would expect to find all 'major' awards. VMS Mosaic (talk)
 * Since the List of literary awards opens: "This list is not intended to be complete, and is instead a list of those literary awards with Wikipedia articles", it is (alas!) clearly useless for the present purpose. Here is a link to a newspaper article which describes the Nero Award as second [among US mystery fiction awards] only to the Edgar Award. Eustachiusz (talk) 01:49, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep: (Creator). Article clearly meets WP:NBOOK. A curious, almost vexatious nomination. Clearly meets WP:BKCRIT. Furthermore 'trivial' is clarified at WP:NBOOK as '"Non-trivial" excludes personal websites, blogs, bulletin boards, Usenet posts, wikis and other media that are not themselves reliable' Publishers Weekly is not trivial. AusLondonder (talk) 03:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are multiple reviews for this. That it won a Nero Award doesn't hurt, although I'd say that this is the type of award that would contribute towards notability but wouldn't really be considered something that would cause an article to be kept on that basis alone. I'm not overwhelmingly familiar with it as I would be with the Stoker Awards, but I do know that they're well thought of. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:37, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep: per WP:NBOOK and multiple reviews. - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:57, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:06, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:06, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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