Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/When the Moon Rises


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Tone 15:58, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

When the Moon Rises

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Non-notable book, no sources provided, nor could I find anything for it via a search other than entries on Amazon and other sales / UGC sites. L Faraone  20:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I can't vote to keep on the sourcing I have (or haven't, more accurately) found, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there might be offline coverage for this 1973 book. Anyone have good library access and enough time to look for reviews? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:50, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge with Michael Gilbert
 * I found a couple of non-sales refs for it
 * http://www.ruemorguepress.com/authors/gilbert.html
 * http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-gilbert-466089.html
 * But all these really assert is that Davies was a fellow POW to a notable author, Michael Gilbert. I think the book could be mentioned on the Gilbert page to flesh out his wartime experiences, as he is clearly notable and this book recounts a notable event in his life. Alternatively, if Davies wrote some more books, he might be notable enough to have his own article and this could be merged with that. I can't see any definite sources for that (other books look like they might be different Tony Davies) --ThePaintedOne (talk) 20:57, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I found those too, but I strongly disagree with merging to Gilbert. If Davies had an article, we could merge to it, but I really don't want to merge to a different author. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:03, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Bear in mind that it's a factual recounting of events that included Gilbert, so it's valid to refernce it on his page. Might not be much more than a cite mind you. The article creator has presumably read the book so they might be able to add some sort of very short precis to the Gilbert article citing the book as source. Admitedly it's a bit of a reach. If there's no consensus around merging and no evidence that Davies did anything else, then I would amend my vote to delete.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 21:08, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. This search reveals that the book was reviewed by Country Life and The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:14, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Phil Bridger's reviews. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:38, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:30, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect in it's current state it is useless, and the reviews are hard to access unless someone has a good subscription, so would be more useful in the context of the author articles unless someone does some more thorough research, Sadads (talk) 06:48, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * there isn't an article for this author though, not convinced he's going to be notable either --ThePaintedOne (talk) 08:51, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 03:26, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect. Qworty (talk) 19:15, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Delete. Based on what we have, the article doesn't meet WP:BK. It could be close on criterion 1 if the reviews are of sufficient depth, but there is nothing to indicate that they are. All we really have is evidence that this book exists, and that its author is affiliated with another, more notable, person. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  12:48, 8 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete, as there seems to be no interest in my proposed merge, as previously advised I'm altering my vote to delete. Having done a search in the British Library for this, it would appear this is the author's only publication. So there's no realistic chance of him getting a page, which makes a redirect pretty much impossible as there is nowhere to redirect too, nor is there likely to be.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 13:12, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.