Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks


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The result was merge to Johann Rafelski. Not strictly the consensus, but it seems like an obvious suggestion and I'm guessing none of the people who argued to delete would have any objections. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:17, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks

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I can't find any reviews of the book online, nor any coverage that would indicate WP:GNG compatibility. Sam-2727 (talk) 05:16, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Comment I can't find any reviews either, except for the one in-house one (CERN) which must count as a blurb. However, there is a quite a good number of citations to the work in published studies ( - it's a bit Rafelski-dominated for the first page, start looking page 2+). I'm not sure how that figures into notability for non-fiction books. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:23, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on and, Google Scholar measures only 8 works that cite the single book in this series that themselves get over 20 citations. That shows the book seems to be respectable enough, but unless those cites include independent works that have something substantial to say about the series, it doesn't suggest notability. &mdash; Charles Stewart (talk) 13:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - No evidence of any independent coverage of the book series, which is what we would need to write a well-sourced article. &mdash; Charles Stewart (talk) 13:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete As best as I can tell, the series only has one book published so far, which is a festschrift for Rolf Hagedorn . Without more reviews of that collection as a book, it's hard to argue that the book is wiki-notable. Basically, it might merit a line in Hagedorn's biography (having a festschrift made in your honor is generally a pretty nice recognition), but I can't see a case for a dedicated article. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 02:40, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge with Johann Rafelski: author is notable (even though he hasn't played in a professional football league game) and the book material could fit into his bio.    // Timothy ::  talk  06:48, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


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