Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Last on Earth


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The result was merge and redirect. Bearian (talk) 16:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Last on Earth

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Non-notable book trilogy. Only 750 hits on Google, all of which are either either various Amazon sites offering it for sale, or book directories. I cannot locate any sources which attest to the wider impact or notability of this series. Marilyn Kaye, the author, is a redirect to an unrelated music article. Lankiveil (talk) 03:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm. Looks like this trilogy did indeed sink like a stone -- which is a shame, as Kaye can be a pretty good writer. All I'm finding is some enthusiastic blog-and-forum reviews (many of them claiming to be from teens who claim to hate reading, interestingly enough) but nothing in the way of notice from ye standard book review outlets. Delete as not satisfying the notability requirements of WP:BK. Alas. —Quasirandom (speak) 04:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete I dug through some Google hits, but, like Quasirandom, could only find blogs. And Amazon sites. Non-notable. Master of Puppets Care to share?  04:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   -- --  pb30 < talk > 06:18, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, alas, only found this in google news, too little.--Aldux (talk) 14:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * keep. these are interesting p[oints which you have all raised. However, i would like to gently ask, are there other criteria for notability, by which toi retain articles? for example, what if it is a notable author, or the series seems to be somewhat well-known? I realize some of your sources deal with that already, but there may be other ways to prove that. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 17:18, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The notability guidelines for books lists all the ways that books qualify for being covered by Wikipedia. "Somewhat well-known" doesn't quite cover it -- and it if the books really were, there would be mentions and reviews and coverage because of it -- and to qualify solely because of the author's notability requires that the author be of major importance (as in, a name known by everyone). —Quasirandom (speak) 19:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to Marilyn Kaye. I've turned the redirect into a stub about this author, who is notable because last year one of her books was adapted into a film with some major Hollywood actors in it. Bláthnaid 19:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Changing my !vote to merge per Bláthnaid, now that we have a merge target. —Quasirandom (speak) 20:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to apparently borderline non-notable author.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 13:33, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge I was leaning toward delete, but with the creation of the stub for the author and the adaptation of one of her novels into a mainstream film I believe there is overall notability collectively.--Jeff Johnston (talk) 02:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. No significant coverage in reliable, secondary sources to indicate notability. Doctorfluffy (talk) 17:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to author, Marilyn Kaye. Has no suitably referenced content beyond what would fit better at the target.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


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