Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Independent Publisher Book Award


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The result was   delete. Secret account 06:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Independent Publisher Book Award

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Tagged as unreferenced since 2007, re notability since 2009, seemingly nobody can find any sources to address this. The bulk of ghits seem to be from the body which awards it or sources asssociated with recipients. I haven't found any clearly independent and reliable indication of its notability. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:26, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:18, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Are you saying you have such sources or what do you mean? Mutt Lunker (talk) 23:10, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep: sources to expand/insert on this article on a notable topic.--Knight of Infinity (talk) 19:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. The award has been around for about 17 years, but I was ultimately unable to find anything that specifically shows that it's notable per Wikipedia's guidelines. There are passing mentions of it in various places where they say that such and such was nominated, but there really isn't anything about the award itself. The award ceremony/group needs to have been the focus of independent RS and that just doesn't seem to be out there. It's possible that there are sources that aren't on the web, but until someone can show that they do exist I'll have to vote delete. Long running does not mean notable. It just means that there was more time for it to gain coverage. I saw a few people talking about how great the awards are, but never in a RS and always by people who either received an award or were in the running for one.Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)


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