Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore


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The result was   no consensus.  MBisanz  talk 00:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal &amp; Grindcore

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Totally fails WP:NB (notability for books). The only hits are for the book's website, its publisher's website, a blog, and sites that sell the book. It has won no awards, and has received no other attention that would even make it borderline notable. MSJapan (talk) 03:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: article fails to assert notability. Is not a major work on the genre, non-notable. JamesBurns (talk) 05:26, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Whilst a relatively fringe subject area (it is one of a handful of books written specifically on the subject of extreme metal), the reviews section of Mudrian's website demonstrates that it was certainly reviewed by such notable sources as Terrorizer, Kerrang! and Maximum Rock 'n' Roll. A Google Books search also suggests that it has been cited by a number of books as a source. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 12:52, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails all of my basic searches for notability. This book is located in only two libraries (the minimum is 12 for notability), and a google serach for independent 3rd party reviews turned up nothing of value . Redirect to author's page. Untick (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment It's in at least 110 libraries, double check your Worldcat search . Also, you prodded the authors page so what's the point suggesting the redirect? Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 02:47, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - book has won no awards, has trivial coverage. A-Kartoffel (talk) 10:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails notability for books. --Pstanton (talk) 02:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per this Google News Archive search. The book passes the general notability guidelines. Here is a review written by Mike Tribby for the American Library Association. This article (from Publishers Weekly) is another review of the book. The book has also been cited by 4 authors. Cunard (talk) 04:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep since Baz and Cunard establish the notability of this book. Drmies (talk) 04:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


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