Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Our Story (Union J Book)


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The result was   redirect to Union J. v/r - TP 15:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Our Story (Union J Book)

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Notability of this book can't be established till after the book has been released. Right now I'm not finding anything written about the book except sellers' listings and publicity, other than the one Digital Spy mention. —Largo Plazo (talk) 17:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 17:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 17:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment The book is scheduled for release on September 26. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 18:59, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Reply Being scheduled for release doesn't make a book notable. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:34, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Union_J with history. The problem is that ultimately we don't have any coverage for this book to show that it's notable in the here and now. I'll also have to add that I've found that most books of this nature never really gain the notability needed to pass WP:NBOOK. A case in point: I remember trying to help write the article for My Crazy Beautiful Life when it was up for AfD. She was wildly well known at that point, far more than Union J is, yet for the longest time during the AfD I was pretty concerned about its lack of notability. Eventually I managed to get enough sources to merit a keep, but the AfD had stretched out for an extra 2-3 weeks since sources kept coming in. The reason I mention this is because at the start of the AfD there were a lot of mentions in the press, but they were all based off of the same press release. This band doesn't have that. It'll release tomorrow and hopefully it'll get coverage, but that it's releasing tomorrow and there's no coverage in the mainstream press is fairly telling. In any case, I'd recommend redirecting with the history intact just in case it does gain future coverage, but until that point it should be a redirect. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:16, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable (and probably won't be). – anemone projectors – 16:36, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
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