Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book


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The result was keep based on sources brought forward during the discussion. RL0919 (talk) 04:53, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book

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Unsourced since 2008. Article reads like a fanpage on the book, probably original research as well. An outside check turned up only passing mentions and routine hits, nothing of significant coverage to satisfy WP:GNG.  Willsome 4 29  (say hey or see my edits!) 04:44, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  Willsome 4 29  (say hey or see my edits!) 04:44, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Toughpigs (talk) 05:08, 27 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:NBOOK. A Newspapers.com search shows the following reviews, among others:
 * The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ), Feb 18, 1975 - six paragraph review: "Jerry Bledsoe has tried to capture some of the fascination of NASCAR racing in his book... There is a lot of Wolfe's 'new journalism' style in this book, but not enough to erase Bledsoe's obvious talents for seeing inside the people he is writing about and transferring their words to print."
 * The High Point Enterprise (High Point, NC), Feb 23, 1975 - eleven paragraph review: "Bledsoe has written about stock car racing from its beginning to where it is today. He tells this story not in a single, chronological narrative, but through glimpses of people involved in stock car racing."
 * St. Louis Post Dispatch (St. Louis, MO), March 16, 1975 - four paragraph review: "Bledsoe sees a unique slice of American culture amid the STP decals and oversize Goodyear racing tires."
 * Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL), June 23, 1967 - three paragraph review: "The reader is treated to views of down-home, rough-and-ready, half-mile, dirt-track racing, as well as the expensive and sophisticated Grand National division."
 * There's a lot more, those are just the first few that I looked at. There's plenty of coverage that satisfies WP:NBOOK. The poorly written article doesn't reflect the actual notability of the subject. -- Toughpigs (talk) 05:04, 27 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Toughpigs' sources easily demonstrate passage of WP:NBOOK. Hog Farm (talk) 14:39, 27 January 2020 (UTC)


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