Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Llana of Gathol


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The result was no consensus. (non-admin closure) — Yashtalk stalk 14:52, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Llana of Gathol

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Yes, the author is notable (but see WP:INHERITED) and yes, the book exists (but see Existence ≠ Notability); what I was not able to find was evidence of its having been the non-trivial subject of discussion in multiple independent reliable published sources. The article as it stands has none, and a Google search turned up only repeated instances of the book, not meaningful discussion of it. It looks like an editor may have decided that every book Burrows wrote warranted a Wikipedia article, which is a misunderstanding of how notability works. KDS4444 (talk) 07:49, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect to Edgar Rice Burroughs; Undoubtedly some of his books are probably notable. But, for this collection of minor short stories, A WP:BEFORE indicates insufficient third-party, independent sources to qualify the subject for a standalone article.  &mdash;  O Fortuna   semper crescis, aut decrescis  17:54, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 05:42, 30 April 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   14:31, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep The Barsoom series as a whole is clearly notable, if 8 or 9 of the books are notable it makes sense to keep pages on all of them. I would also support an attempt to Merge it into the Barsoom article, but that article is a morass I'm not willing to touch. Power~enwiki (talk) 06:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep found the following on Google Scholar: Abstract (does anyone have full-text access to this?),, (again, no full text).  Otherwise, a merge to Barsoom is preferred by WP:ATD-M, since it's a clearly real story collection set in a notable fictional universe. Jclemens (talk) 02:50, 12 May 2017 (UTC)


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