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The Corinthian Project

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Fails WP:NBOOK Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 20:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Redirect to New Series Adventures#Decide Your Destiny - Appears to be a completely non-notable licensed book that has no coverage in reliable sources. The one review being used as a source is someone's personal blog, and thus not a reliable source. Searches did not turn up any kind of coverage or reviews, outside of simple product listings. It is already listed in the appropriate section of the list of books its belongs to, and as there is no content to merge, it should be redirected there. Rorshacma ( talk) 20:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Redirect per Rorshacma. Jfire ( talk) 02:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Beast poetry

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Completely unsourced barring quotes. No indication of importance. Drowssap SMM 02:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Keep in one form or another. It may be the case that Ziolkowski is in fact the first/primary/only scholar to use the term "beast poetry" specifically. However, he seems to be influential in the field. Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry, 750-1150 has 180+ citation in Google Scholar and numerous reviews ( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]). One option could be to re-frame the article to be about the book. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics cites Ziolkowski in the entry on Beast epic, so if nothing else we could merge there. But I'm inclined to keep given that it seems to be an accepted scholarly genre. Jfire ( talk) 02:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep or draftify, convinced by Jfire. Hyperbolick ( talk) 08:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Comment a search under “bestiary poetry” or “poetic bestiary” suggests the topic is notable, and one of these terms might serve as an alternative title. Mccapra ( talk) 18:29, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Wishing Well (novel)

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Non notable book, fails WP:NBOOK. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 01:31, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Redirect to New Series Adventures per WP:ATD. Little or no sourced content to merge. No reviews in WP:LIBRARY or ISFDB. The review cited in the article is self-published. Jfire ( talk) 01:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Reverse Engineering for Beginners

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Does not meet either WP:NBOOK or WP:GNG. Has carried a Notability tag since July 2018, but independent sourcing has not been found. Prod tag was removed by the book's author, so here we are at AFD. MrOllie ( talk) 03:37, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Delete. To my mind NBOOK and GNG are almost the same here: we need multiple reliable in-depth independent sources about the book, most likely published reviews. We don't have any and I couldn't find any. Even if we take a laxer view of NBOOK, the article's claim that this is "recommended by several universities" does not pass #4 (that is only for books that are, themselves, the object of study in courses at multiple schools, not for books used as textbooks of courses about something else). — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Delete We're interested in whether secondary attention has been paid to the book, and that's not being shown. Andy Dingley ( talk) 10:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Galaxy of Fear

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fails notability guidelines for books. ltb d l ( talk) 11:31, 20 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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Frame (journal)

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Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG. Randykitty ( talk) 17:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Delete. We have no evidence of passing WP:GNG, the controlling notability guideline, and my searches didn't find any. — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:41, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Student-generated journal. There are many of these. gidonb ( talk) 03:49, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Jershon

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Wp:gng. This is an in universe location with little attention inside LDS circles, and none in independent reliable sources - especially no indepth coverage we could use to build an article Big Money Threepwood ( talk) 05:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Merge to List of Book of Mormon places. Doesn't seem like there's enough to make a notable stand-alone page from. Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 18:22, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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Legacy of Wolves

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This article fails to list the notability of its subject, and does not display media coverage. The article was originally a redirect to List of Eberron modules and sourcebooks, which may say something about the book itself's notability. Samoht27 ( talk) 06:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Merge to, I guess, List of Eberron novels#The Inquisitives as WP:AtD. There is only one review, so this seems to fail WP:NBOOK. Still, what has already been collected should not simply be lost in deletion. If anyone knows of any more secondary sources, please let me know. Daranios ( talk) 11:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
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Chutnification

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I don't think this topic is notable enough to have it's own page but the information would be useful as a small section in Midnight's Children. Perhaps under style or reception. (I hope this is the right way to go about this) Moritoriko ( talk) 04:52, 10 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Merge to Midnight's Children per nom.

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Open Book Collective

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The page may not meet Wikipedia's notability; perhaps - redirect to Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs BoraVoro ( talk) 11:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Thank you @ BoraVoro for your suggestion to delete this page. Maybe to share some details around why I thought it might be good to have a separate page on the Open Book Collective - this Open Access platform and community has been developed out of the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project, but as the COPIM project has ended and the Open Book Collective itself has matured and now is its own legal entity, I thought it might make more sense to have a separate entry for that initiative. I agree that the current state of the page is still rudimentary, but my hope is that this will be soo growing to include more detailed information around key collaborations, etc. in the space of non-profit OA book publishing, so would be grateful if this could be given space here on Wikipedia going forward. Thanks so much for your consideration, and all best, Flavoursofopen ( talk) 09:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

thank you @ Flavoursofopen for your passion and work. I'm not entirely in favor of deletion at this point. I am open to changing or withdrawing my vote. BoraVoro ( talk) 09:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Keep - I added a stub tag to the page. Looking over the coverage of the Open Book Collective on the web, it appears notable enough but the article is just starting and does need work. In this case we should follow Wikipedia's policy of improving an article rather than deleting it. WP:EDITING Myotus ( talk) 19:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Redirect, fails WP:NGO. I cannot find any sourcing that is fully independent of the organizaiton — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mach61 ( talk • contribs) 16:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  The OBC is a full UK-registered Charity, see https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5219053 Flavoursofopen ( talk) 19:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  @ Flavoursofopen That does not prove notability Mach61 04:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  oh, apologies, I misunderstood - there are indeed more independent sources, e.g.

  • https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2023/11/open-book-collective-collective-path-toward-an-open-and-sustainable-monograph-future/
  • https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2840

  Flavoursofopen ( talk) 07:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply