Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/America Needs a Buddhist President


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The result was Delete Insufficient sources. NPR is not adequate. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 12:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

America Needs a Buddhist President

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No reason to think this book notable.  DGG ( talk ) 19:07, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as my searches are finding nothing better. SwisterTwister   talk  23:15, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep as it has appeared on NPR (cited in the article). Two books by Martin Avery mention the book, one being reference 3 and the other being . And because "People who use WP expect when they look for an article, to find something." (from User:DGG). - Paul2520 (talk) 00:21, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * not everything which forms part of a program on NPR is notable. There is no evidence that this is wiell known enoguh that anyone would look here or anywhere else for information.  DGG ( talk ) 01:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Not notable enough. A discussion on NPR just isn't sufficient. We don't need to replicate Amazon. VanEman (talk) 04:38, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as failing the general notability guideline and the specific notability guideline for books.  Rebb  ing   19:45, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination and others. Non-notable per WP:GNG and WP:NBOOK.--Ddcm8991 (talk) 20:02, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. All we have are two sources, an NPR mention and a Publisher's Weekly review. This is a good start, but not enough by itself to pass NBOOK as it requires stronger sourcing than this. When it comes to the Avery sources, I note that both books are self-published through Lulu. Self-published sources are almost never usable as a reliable source unless they've been routinely cited as an authoritative source in multiple independent and reliable sources - essentially enough to where the books would pass notability guidelines on their own. The unsaid thing about this is that this is incredibly difficult to assert even if the person who wrote the books was considered to be notable and an authority in their field. It's not enough that someone might be an authority - the specific work has to be considered authoritative. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  15:22, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Too soon, not ready. Not enough coverage yet. Bruriyah (talk) 00:59, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's difficult not to take personally that this page I started is up for deletion. I'm consoled by your saying, "Not enough coverage yet." It's a neat book, and hopefully it will get some coverage. If so, I'll happily contribute to the page in the future. - Paul2520 (talk) 01:59, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The best way to the make your article survive is to prove it via WP:GNG or NBOOK. Mhhossein (talk) 12:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
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"Brett and Sparrow are strong poets with good voices," says Levine. "Brett is a performance-oriented poet who never reads from the page, and Sparrow is quirky, with a tongue-in-cheek style. "Bevell, author of the illustrated poetry book "America Needs A Buddhist President" (White Cloud Press, 2004), has had several poems appear in magazines such as Earth First Journal, Publishers Weekly and Tricycle. "The spoken-word (Bevell) is known for live recitations, has been featured on numerous CDs and is part of NPR's permanent Web site archives." It is possible that Bevell could support a brief article, which could mention this book." Bevell got 7 hits on my Proquest news search, most about a quite minor poetry prize he won. I'm not saying that there is enough to support an article, only that there might be if the creator wants to move this to user space and attempt to include Buddhist President in an article on Bevell.  Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:05, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * delete can't find enough on this title. However, I have started a number of articles about books that excited or intrigued me, so I ran a proquest search on the title, thinking to maybe turn up some reviews.  Only 2 hits, one to a bumper sticker sporting this slogan. The other was an paean  to Bevel and another writer:


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