Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Hindu–Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996


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The result was redirect to Sita Ram Goel.  Sandstein  08:51, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

History of Hindu–Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996

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A self published book by author owned publishing company, lacking third party RS coverage. Fails all the criteria of WP:BOOKCRIT. Reference used in the article are also self published. Tagged for notability issue since July 2020 Walrus Ji (talk) 07:44, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Walrus Ji (talk) 07:44, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Walrus Ji (talk) 07:44, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Walrus Ji (talk) 07:44, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Walrus Ji (talk) 07:44, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment: I'm running into the same issue here as with the prior books nominated. The book has been discussed in RS, however the issue is that they're more discussed in relation to Goel's overall views. Technically this could maybe muster up enough to squeak by notability guidelines depending on how we look at this, but to be honest unless there's sourcing that I can't locate (definitely possible given that Google doesn't always properly crawl Indian sourcing and potential foreign language sourcing) I think that this should at most be a redirect to Goel's page if anything is kept. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:27, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I've merged in some info to Goel's article. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:34, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Sita_Ram_Goel. I'm going to argue for a redirect to the section on Goel's beliefs given that the article does seem to have a mild stream of views (about 1,000 - 1,300 a year). It's not super heavily visited, but I suppose heavily visited enough to maybe argue that there are people purposely seeking this book out. I have no problem if the end result is to just delete, however. On a related note, is it possible to determine how many of these views were from people deliberately searching out the term or people clicking through from another article? ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:40, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , The redirect view tool tells me that that the page views are directly for the target, which is only possible due to a direct link. Considering that Goel's page got 2.5K view last month. It is likely that ~100 (per month) of the viewers of Goel's BIO also click the link for Christian Encounters book out of curiosity. The trivial view count doesn't add much to the notability question though. Walrus Ji (talk) 09:25, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect if an appropriate merger has been done. It is not the job of WP to review books.  If this were an article about the subject of the book, but with an end-date of (say) 1600 or 1700 - before William Carey's time, it might make a useful one.  But an article on a NN self-published book NO!  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:32, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It is the job of Wikipedia to have articles on books if they are notable, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 00:23, 3 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to author, there are presently not enough/have been unable to find enough to satisfy WP:NBOOK ie. multiple reviews on this book. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:06, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect as suggested and per WP:CHEAP. Bearian (talk) 18:04, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to author. The book itself doesn't meet WP:NBOOK, or pass WP:GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 03:27, 8 January 2021 (UTC)


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