Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlantis Rising (book)


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The result was   delete. Courcelles (talk) 02:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Atlantis Rising (book)

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Contested prod. Article/potential sources contain no indication of notability as we require. Failing WP:BK means an article cannot be written. User contesting prod has not addressed these concerns. ScienceApologist (talk) 14:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:48, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:49, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. While I have no real opinion either way about this book, I do take issue with the nominator's assertion that "failing WP:BK means an article cannot be written", since he/she seems to be unaware that this is a notability guideline and not a policy and is therefore not set in stone. There is nothing to say that an article cannot be written, merely that it may not be a good idea. -- Necrothesp (talk) 23:45, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. No indication of notability. The text is written like a blurb. It is also patent nonsense: "the first book in the study of lost civilizations and alien contact"; "the very first work to suggest that ancient peoples were visited by extraterrestrials" – as if there is not a whole procession of predecessors offering such pseudoarchaeological junk theories about "ancient astronauts", such as Sitchin, Von Däniken, and Icke. --Lambiam 13:29, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
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