Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rationality and Power


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure)  TheSpecialUser TSU 01:14, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Rationality and Power

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The notability of this book is highly questionably. The three citations show nothing apart that it has been referenced by someone else. Two out of the three references are by the author of this book. Possible a self-promotion. There is nothing that indicates great importance within academia, never mind outside academia. Mootros (talk) 10:21, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm actually finding where this book is often heavily referenced in many peer reviewed journals. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. I had to dig through JSTOR, but I found quite a few reviews from various journals as well as several entries that used this book as a cite. More than one journal described this book as being something that was well used within academia, at least at that point in time. Nowadays? Maybe not, but notability doesn't fade just because it's not used as often anymore.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 14:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Particularly in light of citations added by Tokyogirl79, subject satisfies WP:BK & WP:GNG.--JayJasper (talk) 19:07, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. As it now has review citations and such, it seems to pass depth of coverage and notability criteria. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 19:24, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:HEY. Good work, Tokyogirl. Bearian (talk) 23:17, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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