Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Clique (novel)


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The result was   Keep. Tim Vickers (talk) 19:42, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

The Clique (novel)

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Non notable book by non notable author, tagged with multiple issues none of which have been adressed since. No references/third party citations to establish notability. Suspect it has been created due to a film adaptation of the book (another uncited claim). Mfield (talk) 19:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

-- KittyRainbow (talk) 09:25, 4 September 2008 (UTC) PS: It seems to be true that the book is being adapted into a film, but apparently it will be a direct-to-DVD thing. (Or so says Variety)
 * Merge/Redirect to The Clique series, along with the other articles for novels in the series. The series itself seems to pass WP:BK on a basic level, but I agree that none of the individual books are particularly notable enough to have their own articles. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  20:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep It's incredibly difficult to find articles specifically about this book as it shares the name of the series and so you have to wade through pages and pages of stuff to find anything relevant. That said, according to Amazon's product description page, this particular book in the series was reviewed by both School Library Journal and Booklist. A Publishers Weekly article about the second book in the series quotes from their own review of the first one, the original copy of which I can't find (I suspect it's too old to appear in the archives), but it clearly exists. Also, this book was selected as a "Quick Pick For Reluctant Young Adult Readers" by the American Library Association. So I think it passes WP:BK.
 * Actually, as noted on the main series page, the entire series is supposedly being adapted into direct to DVD films, so that doesn't really add much to any particular book. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 14:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * My point was more that as a direct-to-DVD production the film(s) don't really add much to anything at all. ;) Hence being stuck in a postscript... -- KittyRainbow (talk) 17:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep The reviews  show the notability--an ALA quick pick is a selected highly important book recommendation by an authoritative source. DGG (talk) 02:12, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


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