Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republican Belfast: a political tourist's guide


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The result was   keep. More recent comments seem to indicate that there is substantial coverage of the topic in secondary sources enough to establish notability. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 22:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Republican Belfast: a political tourist's guide
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I don't see any indication of notability Shadowjams (talk) 21:16, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this book. Joe Chill (talk) 22:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  -- Joe Chill (talk) 22:37, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Insufficeient notability to meet guidelines. ChildofMidnight (talk) 01:01, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Going neutral per the two sources. It's not a lot of coverage, but perhaps there's more? ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:41, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep This source and this one seem to be sufficient sourcing to pass WP:BK. JohnWBarber (talk) 04:25, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete I couldn't find any coverage in GNews myself, and the two references above, whilst a start, aren't enough. If it stays, the criticism in the first source about selective republican history needs to be mentioned. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:37, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - The sources cited above are columns that are about the book; I agree they're not enough. I say that because they're columns (I think that one is published in a newspaper; I'm not sure about the other) and they're local in scope. I don't know much about the publication sources but they don't appear to be major enough to warrant defacto notability just by their mention. Shadowjams (talk) 18:28, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Irish Daily Star and The Irish News are both nationally-distributed newspapers, and the sources linked above are clearly book reviews - just the sort of coverage that would be expected to show notability of a book. We have the bonus of having one source written from a unionist point of view and another from a nationalist point of view. I'm finding it difficult to realise how these sources don't meet notability requirements. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Two reliable sources talking in detail about the book. Polargeo (talk) 14:51, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
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