Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Success of Open Source


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The result was d e lete. east. 718 at 02:01, November 27, 2007

The Success of Open Source

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Contested prod. This book fails to meet the criteria of Notability (books). Lacking any commentary from reliable sources, this article should be deleted and the existing mention of the book in the article Steven Weber (professor) could be expanded if there were any material to add. The article on Steven Weber (professor) is already very short, and no case has been made that an unsourced book article needs to exist in addition to the author article.

For Notability (books), note the requirement that The book has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the book itself, with at least some of these works serving a general audience. The publisher's own web page is not a reliable source, and the award the book is said to have won is hardly a major literary award like those listed in. EdJohnston (talk) 03:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete: Per the nom. This book does not meet notability guidelines for books. - Rjd0060 (talk) 04:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Edjohnston did a great job explaining why this should be deletedBalloonman (talk) 07:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. Mikemill (talk) 15:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. -- M2Ys4U ( talk ) 00:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Tim Ross ·talk  20:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


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