Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Wind Boy


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The result was   Keep.  Syn  ergy 00:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

The Wind Boy

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Contested prod. Non-notable book, fails WP:BK. Admittedly, it was originally printed in 1923, so producing sources and references to pass the notability criteria would be hard - however, it was reprinted in 1996 and I haven't seen anything about the reprint that would pass WP:BK. No article about the author to redirect to. CultureDrone (talk) 07:16, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 *  Weak delete . There doesn't seem to be much about this book out there other than trivial mention, plot summaries, and reader reviews. Equendil Talk 07:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Not really changed my mind, I still don't think the book is notable, and shopping for just any mention of a given subject doesn't do it for me, but oh well, we're not wasting paper and at least it's not an advert for a book recently published, so I'll go with the flow. Equendil Talk 13:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   —Captain-tucker (talk) 14:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep I just added references to Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal reviews to the article Captain-tucker. There is also a Booklist review here. (talk) 14:32, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep The reprinting indicates a classic. The current reviews are just sufficient for notability, stronger keep if reviews of the original ed. can be found.   DGG (talk) 01:00, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Looking at Google Books, the reviews do exist, e. g. Booklist Books 1924, 33 (but google won't let me see them). A book on Diane Arbus there says the book was a bestseller in the 30's. It's clearly her main success – it gets mentioned in reviews of her other books, e. g. The Horn Book Magazine 7, 1931, review of Gay Mystery, "To a lover of Mrs. Eliot's 'Buttercup Day' and her 'Wind Boy', that fairy tale written true beauty of" (and there the snippet ends, so I'll never know). N p holmes (talk) 10:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. The sources added previously were enough to show notability, but I've added a couple more for good measure, and, as the previous editor said, this Google Books search shows that there are plenty more sources out there - it's just a pity that all but one of them allow no more than those tantalising snippets to be read. Phil Bridger (talk) 13:10, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


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