Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alon Ziv


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The result was Delete. Fram (talk) 12:37, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Alon Ziv

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This article is about an author whose sole claim to notability is the authorship of a book that is itself not notable. It is essentially unreferenced (as of this moment it references only a YouTube link and the book itself) and has no information about the author itself. This lack alone might not be enough to get the article deleted, but it appears that biographical information (or even details about the book itself) are hard to come by from a secondary source. Avruch  T 21:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I found two references to the author at http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Alon+Ziv%22++site%3Aucla.edu, but neither is very helpful. There are other potentially notable people with the same name. --Eastmain (talk) 00:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah that was the same problem I encountered. Avruch  T 01:32, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete - Based on the current article, the assertion of notability is that he is the author of the book Breeding Between the Lines. Searching for his name and the book together on Google news shows some mention in the press. Unfortunately, they are behind pay walls, and based on the little information attainable from the summary snippets, it appears that the articles mention him, or use him for a quote but aren't actually about him. -- Whpq (talk) 17:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Published in 2006, yet only 24 US/Canada libraries are listed in worldcat as owning, so it is not conceivably an important book, and it's his only claim to notability. DGG (talk) 18:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable author of a non-notable book. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 19:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.