Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Summer Son


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 Talk 03:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

The Summer Son

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Not enough coverage in reliable sources to verify or sustain an article. Fails general notability and WP:NBOOK. Being a 'Finalist' for a Utah Book Award is not notable. The review  in the Billings Gazette was written when  the author, Craig Lancaster, was an editor there and the New West rewiew seems to be from the publisher New West Books so neither are independent. Delete/Redirect to authors page as with his other non-notable books Edward Adrift and The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter. J bh Talk  15:41, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - Withdrawn by nominator Thank you for finding those two reviews. They are enough to technically pass NBOOK so this AfD can be closed. On a minor side note, it is interesting how the specific subject notability criteria all have one criteria that lowers the bar from significant coverage to not completely unknown . Oh well that is the policy... Please close this, I am unsure of how to do it properly. Thank you.  J bh  Talk  15:25, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  Everymorning   talk  18:08, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment: If the publisher hasn't put out any of the author's works then we could probably use the New West review as a RS. That'll take some checking, though. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:02, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, Lancaster hasn't published through New West/August Publications, so the review should be usable. It looks to be a site that will review other books in the same way that Tor.com will review non-Tor releases. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:08, 5 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Weak keep. It's not the best sourcing, but I found a Booklist review and the Lively Times seems to be usable enough as a source since it does have an editorial staff. The New West source also looks to be usable since the author has never published work through there as far as I can tell. Again, it's not the best sourcing and I really wish that there was more out there, but it looks to be barely enough to scrape by notability guidelines. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:16, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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