Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Scientology 8-8008

Closing administrator's rationale
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Raw count analysis

 * Delete
 * 1) Cirt (8 edits) (nominator)
 * 2) Coffeepusher (5 edits)
 * 3) Fahrenheit451
 * 4) Minimaki
 * 5) Dhartung


 * Keep
 * 1) Exit2DOS2000 (6 edits)
 * 2) Lifebaka


 * Non-participatory
 * 1) 98.215.48.213 (2 edits) (SPA)
 * 2) Edison
 * 3) John J. Bulten (!voted Redirect and Merge or delete)

Arguments

 * Delete
 * 1) thorough search found no reliable secondary sources to verify content
 * 2) no published book reviews
 * 3) only receives trivial mentions or adverts
 * 4) no news coverage
 * 5) does not satisfy WP:BK
 * 6) no independant notability
 * 7) no multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the subject
 * 8) publisher of the book is not a reliable source for notability


 * Keep
 * 1) written by notable person
 * WP:BK, criteria 5; historical author who's whole syllabus is notable by virtue of its authorship
 * 1) scientologists prevent coverage in media so it is notable without coverage
 * 2) subject of instruction at multiple grade schools, high schools, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country

Summary
It has not been sufficiently demonstrated that the author of the book is so historically significant that his every work should be automatically considered notable. Ironically, most cases where this would apply would already be demonstratably notable from the multiple non-trivial mentions general clause, so it it really not needed as an AFD argument, only helpful for a person to decide on their own not to nominate an article if it is a book by, say, Julias Caesar, or Plato. The claim that the book is used as a text in the public education system is not believable... if this was the case, there would be boucoup coverage, if not just from parental outrage. There were a sufficient number of wikipedians in good standing who felt that this article failed to establish notability, and a good faith effort to find required sources was evidently done to no avail. My decision is therefore delete.  Jerry  talk ¤ count/logs 13:08, 28 March 2008 (UTC)