Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Power Politics (Wight book)


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The result was keep. joe deckertalk 01:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Power Politics (Wight book)

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Fails WP:NBOOK. Sourcing is a sham. Kleuske (talk) 11:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 11:19, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep - The current state of sourcing in the article is poor. However, I can find multiple reliable sources that directly discuss the book's content. I don't have much experience applying WP:NBOOK, but being the subject of two published book review articles in academic journals would seem to satisfy criterion #1. In addition to the one review article cited on the page, I can find others by M Donelan, B PORTER, and DM MacKinnon. This is in addition to direct references to the book presented in at least three books. This meets our basic inclusion criteria at the least. I'll update the page with more (and better) citations as I get time over the next few days. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 00:38, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep: Robert James Martin Wight (1913 – 1972), also known as Martin Wight, was one of the foremost British scholars of International Relations in the twentieth century, author of Power Politics (1946, revised and expanded edition 1978) as well as the seminal essay "Why is there no International Theory?" (first published in the journal International Relations in 1960 and republished in the edited collection Diplomatic Investigations in 1966). The present Wikipedia article on Power Politics provides an enlightening overview of Wight's theses on international relations which have lost none of their relevance since first publication.  The book's existence deserves to be noted on Wikipedia.  I hope that my today's copyedit of the article will help enhance its attractiveness to readers.  Nihil novi (talk) 04:52, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Comment, reviewed by International Relations here and Millennium: Journal of International Studies here (sorry, subscription required: Coolabahapple (talk) 08:41, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


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