Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Sheep Look Up


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The result was   keep. SNOW keep. Large number of JSTOR hits alone make this an untenable nomination, made possibly in bad faith, and certainly not competently. Drmies (talk) 03:50, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

The Sheep Look Up

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I don't believe this book is notable, references only one potentially critical review. Doesn't seem to be much coverage and the book is very lowly ranked in Amazon. UnrepentantTaco (talk) 20:53, 20 June 2013 (UTC) [Edit reverted as per WP:BE and. Unscintillating (talk) 13:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)]
 * Weak keep. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:35, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep: It won a | Hugo Award. The whole thing can't be viewed, but it along with his two other books were critiqued in a |scholarly article. Here is a |review in another publication. A |review in a literary publication. SL93 (talk) 22:41, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, speedy close. While it did not win the Hugo (the ref cited above is in error; that was Stand On Zanzibar), it was nominated for the Nebula, placed sixth in the annual Locus Poll, was reviewed contemporaneously in nearly a dozen genre-related publications, and has dozens of substantive news hits -- not to mention fifteen pages of Google Scholar hits. Not that anything beyond the Nebula nomination would be necessary, it's as definitive an indicator of notability as there is for genre fiction. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 00:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
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 * Firm Keep. (and probably WP:SNOW)htom (talk) 02:27, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
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