Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boulevard of Broken Dreams: A 40 Year Journey through Portage Avenue - Displacement, Dislocation, and How Osmosis Can Resolve Community Blight'


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The result was speedily deleted by Materialscientist per speedy deletion criteria G5 and G11 (non-admin closure). Sideways713 (talk) 10:17, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: A 40 Year Journey through Portage Avenue - Displacement, Dislocation, and How Osmosis Can Resolve Community Blight'

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Non-notable book. Appears to fail WP:NOTBOOK. References are unrelated to book. red dog six (talk) 02:44, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, Kind of pointless creating an article with refs completely unrelated .... - →Davey 2010→ →Talk to me!→  02:51, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

*book was nominated for a donner - keep! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puppetryofdapianist (talk • contribs) 03:20, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Obvious sock of User:TippdeepSingh, so blocked. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:16, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. This might actually be speedyable as spam, due to the way the article is written. As far as the awards go... nominations mean absolutely nothing, for multiple reasons. First is that anyone can submit a book for the Donner Prize, as long as the book fits within a relatively loose amount of guidelines. Authors can even submit their own work- it's not exactly like getting into an awards competition where you're selected by a specific group of judges. Secondly is that nominations don't give notability- only wins do. The problem people ran into with this is that most places will nominate their work for every prize they can, in an attempt to boost notability for stuff that really isn't that notable. As a result years ago it was decided that only wins will give notability and even then, only with very specific awards. Less than 5% of any award out there for any given subject will give notability and about .1% of that will give notability enough to keep on that basis alone. Now as far as Gentrification Weekly goes, that absolutely wouldn't be considered an award that would give notability even if it won it. However the biggest problem I ran through is that there just aren't any reliable sources covering this book. It deals with a notable person, but that notability is WP:NOTINHERITED for the book. This just isn't notable. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:01, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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