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The result was keep.
JForget 02:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Almost no content
iBentalk/contribsIf you reply here, please place a talkback notification on my page. 18:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep Sure it's a stub, but a cursory Google search reveals a lot of information. The book is clearly notable. I have added content and references to the article so please take another look at it. --
MelanieN (
talk) 19:47, 31 January 2010 (UTC)MelanieNreply
Additional comment: I see that this was nominated for deletion, as having "almost no content", only half an hour after the article was created, and while the creator was clearly still working on it (e.g. creating an infobox). Surely we should give people a little time to establish content, before complaining about lack of content!--
MelanieN (
talk) 20:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
In response: Please use the {{under construction}} tag.--
iBentalk/contribsIf you reply here, please place a talkback notification on my page. 00:20, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Really? It says "In general, this template should not be used for new articles with little content."
Personally, I often start an article small, and add information as I research it. Wikipedia seems to accept this approach, see
Wikipedia:stub. "A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information, and it should be capable of expansion." The fact that an article is a stub, or is very short, is not one of the
reasons for deletion.
BTW I am not the author of the article, and I know nothing about this book except what I researched - never heard of it before today. I am just a person who likes to occasionally "rescue" an article from deletion, when I think the subject has merit.--
MelanieN (
talk) 00:48, 1 February 2010 (UTC)MelanieNreply
Keep Due to the two New York Times reviews; that's pretty significant coverage for a new book. ThemFromSpace 15:57, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep. Concur with the above, there are sources that document notability.
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Did 16:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment Well, here we have notability confirmed in so many words: the New York Times put this book on their list of "Notable Books of 2009".
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Keep Added notability claims.--
iBentalk/contribsIf you reply here, please place a talkback notification on my page. 03:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)reply
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