Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Morningstar Strain: Plague of the Dead (novel)


 * 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 delete. --Sam Blanning(talk) 14:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

The Morningstar Strain: Plague of the Dead (novel)
Delete. This book does not meet the proposed notability criteria for WP:BK. There are only 57 Google hits for "The Morningstar Strain" (21 of them "unique"). It's not found on Amazon, and according to the Permuted Press web site, it's not available until December. Contested prod. ... disco spinster   talk  16:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BK. Published by a niche-publisher with little notability, not even for sale yet... Pascal.Tesson 01:46, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete. The WP:BK hasn't been formally adopted yet and thus can't be used for ground for deletion.  It does, however, require clean-up, as it is written like an advertisement.
 * Don't Delete. The WP:BK Gives information about the book, and a general synapse. It is written like an advertisement, but as the book is not released yet this is not surprising, as advertisements are what the article is probably based on, and this will likely change when the book is released. It may even be beneficial to blank the article at that time and start over, but keep untill then, or at least till we have more information on the book to go by. Enigmar 20:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 *  AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Chick Bowen 00:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Weak keep. Based upon my understanding of the rules for what books can have articles, the rules pretty well state that as long as it isn't self-published it can have an article. Had the book only been made available online, that would be one thing (Wiki hasn't to my knowledge reached consensus on what to do with e-books), but at the moment I'm giving it benefit of the doubt. Needs to be tagged as an upcoming book, however. I'll do that now. If kept, the article should be renamed to remove the (novel) disambiguation, unless there happens to also be a movie or something else with this exact title. 23skidoo 02:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete- a still-unpublished NN book. There's no consensus that any non-vanity dead-tree book automatically qualifies as notable enough for inclusion. --Groggy Dice 03:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. I did a google search for "The Morningstar Strain" "Plague of the Dead" -wikipedia and found 38 hits. Doesn't seem particularly notable. Furthermore, take a look at WP:NC-BK. It tells you to "ask yourself if several libraries or bookshops, or a no-subscription website have a copy of the book". It's clear that the answer to that is no. --Brad Beattie (talk) 08:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.