The result was no consensus YellowMonkey ( bananabucket) 07:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC) reply
This fairly obscure history book doesn't seem to meet any of the criteria set out in
Wikipedia:Notability (books). I have been able to find only one - very uncomplimentary - external review, published in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
[1] The publisher's website cites positive comments from a couple of classical scholars but these appear to be solicited feedback rather than non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the book itself, as required by
Wikipedia:Notability (books).
[2] The book has not won any awards, it has not contributed to art forms or political or religious movements and there is no evidence that it is in educational use - I've been unable to find any references to it in any other books, so it does not appear to be in use as a source for historians. Finally, the author himself, an Iranian-Canadian psychologist, is thoroughly obscure - this is only his second published book - and he certainly cannot considered "so historically significant that any of his or her written works may be considered notable". The book is the only one of
Osprey Publishing's "
General military" titles to have its own article, but there is no indication of why it has any notability of any sort, given that it so clearly fails every criterion of
Wikipedia:Notability (books)
ChrisO (
talk) 09:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
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(added) I have no objection to merging it, though obviously it would need to be slimmed down to the bare essentials. --
ChrisO (
talk) 08:51, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
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