Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morningstar Pass: The Collapse of the UFO Coverup


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The result was delete. De728631 (talk) 15:02, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Morningstar Pass: The Collapse of the UFO Coverup

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A self-published book of dubious notability. The article makes some grandiose claims about how this book was praised as the "War and Peace" of the UFO genre, however upon investigation, it would appear the only place those claims were made were in user reviews on Amazon, thus not exactly a reliable claim. The sources on this are hard to investigate: both are print-only, UFO centered publications. I am unsure of the validity of reviews from these organizations, nor of the extent of coverage either of them gave this book, but I feel that the book having no reviews in more traditional sources of book reviews is rather telling. The third source used in the article, to a page on SETI's site, is not about the book at all, and thus not a valid source. Looking for additional sources, the only place I'm finding any mention of the book is in "About the Author" sections for other things that this author wrote, both under this name and his real name (Victor Norgarde being an alias). Rorshacma (talk) 23:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete It's still a long way from notability. It needs to be reviewed and/or discussed in more mainstream sources. Borock (talk) 23:47, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:19, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:19, 22 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete I did a cross-database search of 50+ subscription databases (jstor, gale, newspapers etc) and it came up 1 hit, Worldcat id: 1414019092 --Green Cardamom (talk) 07:34, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was unable to find where this book was covered in any reliable sources other than one sole link in the Florida Today. This is not enough to pass WP:NBOOK.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:37, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
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