Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The African-American Historical News Journal


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The result was delete. North America1000 02:30, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

The African-American Historical News Journal

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I couldn't establish that this meets WP:NOTABILITY in any form. Boleyn (talk) 16:52, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete This isn't what it seems. It is a book, not a journal, and was published in 2011. It has no ISBN, that I can find, isn't for sale anywhere but on the page of the one site listed in the article. I cannot find any statement about who publishes it. However, because of what evidence we do have, I am assuming that it is self-published. It does not appear in WorldCat, nor Amazon. (From the Charlotte's Observer article, the only reference: "The 64-page book documents 178 years of history through digitized copies of the actual historical newspaper articles." LaMona (talk) 21:47, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'd agree that this looks to be self-published (at least to a degree) this article gives off the strong impression that this book was put together by a group of people who knew one another and who banded together to form this publisher. While self-published books can occasionally be notable, I can't find anything to show that this book would be one of those types of work. If this is the same book that is mentioned here (which looks likely) then it's only held in one library, which contradicts the claims in the CO article that the book is held in multiple schools. Basically this is a pretty solidly non-notable book as far as NBOOK goes. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:20, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NBOOK. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:59, 10 June 2015 (UTC)


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