Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Posner's "Enlightened Despot"


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  21:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Richard Posner's "Enlightened Despot"
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OK, question here is, is a book review notable? The book, its author and the author of the review are, without a doubt, but I don't think that confers notability to the review itself. The claim that it's "much cited" appears in reality to be that it was reprinted. I find no evidence the review has been discussed and is anything more than a book review. I doubt the title is a valid search term so I don't see the need for a re-direct elsewhere. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 21:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions.   —TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 21:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I would have advocated merging into the article of A Judge in a Democracy as a criticism section, but as the book itself doesn't actually have an article, that's impossible. I have heard of the article and it's received a decent bit of attention, but I don't think it's to the point where I think it should get a wikipedia article about it. Vickser (talk) 22:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to expand I'm not saying that a book review can't be notable. Thomas Huntington's Clash of Civilizations was a book review after all, and it caused such a stir that it would've been notable before he published a book on it.  Posner's Enlightened Despot article, while sort of a big deal, is nowhere near Clash level. Vickser (talk) 22:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete because its WP:NN and violates WP:NOTOPINION. IZAK (talk) 08:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete IN truly exceptional cases a book review can be notable--the destructive review of Keats' poetry in The Quarterly Review is notorious in English literature--there's a less than adequate discussion of it in [Endymion (poem] but it would be a very unusual book review indeed. This is nowhere near it. If the book were important enough for an article the review could be mentioned there. Alternatively, it should be worth a mention in the article on Barak. DGG (talk) 20:25, 5 July 2008 (UTC)


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