Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana


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The result was keep. John254 01:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

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Unnotable individual book that asserts nothing to justify an article per WP:BOOK Eusebeus 14:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep It seems that the book's author Michael Azerrad made a documentary   based on the interviews that he conducted for the book, so in a roundabout way the article meets WP:BK #3. One article says about the documentary: 'little is revealed because all the juiciest, best quotes have already been widely disseminated via Azerrad's 1993 biography, "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana."'  Bláthnaid  15:54, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Azerrad is a notable music journalist, and according to his article, "In 2000 Q magazine named Come as You Are one of the 50 greatest rock books ever written". There's no source but this backs it up. Its Amazon page contains an excerpt of an extremely favourable review in Billboard. Google News search on "come as you are" azzerad gives 19 results for the last month alone, relating to the documentary based on it, and a look at the archives shows it being referenced in stories around the time of Cobain's death, as well as a widely syndicated AP-type article around the time his diaries were published in 2002, saying that fans looking for insight would be better off reading "Michael Azzerad's excellent Nirvana bio..." Thomjakobsen 16:47, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course, you get a lot more News search results if you spell the name properly (z-rr), which I failed to do there, but even his publisher's page gets that wrong... Thomjakobsen 16:51, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge at an appropriate level of detail with Nirvana and delete this article; I suggest this for the cited documentary film as well. There's a "See also" section in Nirvana that looks about right. Accounting4Taste 16:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea. Eusebeus 17:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep seems to be a reasonable amount of sources to cite . --W.marsh 19:14, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep: Notable author + Notable subject = Notability. The article does need improvement and it would help to include information such as the ISBN number and publisher. But that is a content issue. 23skidoo 21:55, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems notable. 96T 22:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sufficient coverage/notability. • Lawrence Cohen  06:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


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