Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America


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The result was   nomination withdrawn due to sourcing and content improvements. Bearcat (talk) 06:39, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

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Delete. Book which makes a valid potential claim of notability, but completely fails to source that properly. The entire article consists of the incomplete sentence fragment "Winner of the 1995 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation", and the only "reference" provided is the book's own publication details. As always, a book does not automatically qualify for a Wikipedia article just because it's technically possible to "cite" the book as circular metaverification of itself; it gets a Wikipedia article when reliable source coverage about the book in media independent of itself can be cited to get it over WP:NBOOK. I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can write a complete sentence about the book and reference it somewhere other than itself, but this as written is not a keepable article. Bearcat (talk) 19:32, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep. I've added the necessary sources and expanded it as best I could. I figure that the student can do the rest of the expansion., what do you say? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:30, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I say, "Once again, Tokyogirl79 saves the day." Seriously, girl, you rock. Bearcat (talk) 06:39, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


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