Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Devil's Thumbprint


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request undeletion of these articles. Liz Read! Talk! 01:26, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

The Devil's Thumbprint

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Creator felt we should have an article on this book and its author, whereas  and  each thought both subjects non-notable. The four-year-old notability tags should not become permanent badges of shame, so I invite discussion.

The bulk of Wikipedia's critical response section is capsule comments from flap copy. The one cited review is based heavily on an interview with author Akbar. One could read WP:NBOOK as discounting it for book notability purposes as a publication where the author speaks about the book. I found only one other non-trivial review. (page 8) That reviewer published a book with the same publisher the following year, a book which was launched at the Dhaka Literary Festival (organized by Akbar), which muddies the question of independence.

The only other source of any depth is British Bangladeshi Who's Who, a type of publication often discounted when evaluating notability on the grounds that their capsule bios are based on information supplied by the subjects, and self-promotion is not the road to a Wikipedia article.

More recently (2021), Akbar has been mentioned briefly in Brill's Journal of World Literature in a list of "young and emerging Bangladeshi poets". This characterization suggests that a Wikipedia article about him may be WP:TOOSOON. Worldbruce (talk) 00:16, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Poetry, Bangladesh,  and United Kingdom. Worldbruce (talk) 00:16, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete the only things I find are for Haddock fish, for which this is a slang term apparently. Lots of quotes from other notable individuals in the article, but all are un-sourced, so this almost seems like fluffy promotion. Oaktree b (talk) 02:35, 3 February 2023 (UTC)


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