Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandate of Heaven (book)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Move to The Mandate of Heaven. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:54, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mandate of Heaven (book)
The subject doesn't look encyclopedic. Nothing links here except one paragraph on Mandate of Heaven that's highly similar; I suspect someone is wikifying on impulse a book they just read from the library or something. Suggest deletion, or if consensus is not to delete, move to The Mandate of Heaven (book). Quuxplusone 21:25, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to The Mandate of Heaven. (The (book) disambig isn't really necessary since no other article shares its exact title.) Real, non-vanity press book. A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  22:07, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree the book is real; but is it encyclopedic? Other than the fact that it has photos by Cartier-Bresson, I'm not aware of anything especially interesting about it. Is Wikipedia supposed to have an entry for every work of nonfiction ever published? (If the book has an interesting history, or is the vehicle for an interesting theory about the Chinese civil war, or something like that, then I agree Move. But I don't see any evidence of that.) --Quuxplusone 00:30, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * My notability threshold for books or other scholarly works (especially on a serious subject like Chinese history) is a lot lower than it is for, say, websites; I take a "notable until proven not notable" view of stuff like this. That the book was published by a non-vanity press is good enough for me. In addition, this article existed for eight minutes before you nominated it. I'm a stickler for bad stub articles and even I think that's a little premature. Give it a chance to grow. If the book is truly notable and interesting, someone will add more. If not, it'll stagnate and maybe get deleted later. (Of course, if some expert in the field pops in here and says, "This is just a generic unimportant book," I'll change my tune.) A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  02:08, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to The Mandate of Heaven and keep there per android carmeld1 04:19, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .