Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Editors (novel)

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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 21:20, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Editors (novel)

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Did a WP:BEFORE but I couldn't find enough to unambiguously pass WP:NBOOK or WP:GNG. The first source is an interview, which seems questionable as a source of notability for a book. The piece is part of the Yahoo for Creators program, which has an unclear level of editorial control from Yahoo itself, and may be published with little editorial oversight like WP:FORBESCON, but I'm not sure. The second source is a local news station, which I think is of questionable notability. The third source "Numlock News" is a self-published substack blog which as far as I am aware does not count towards notability. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:47, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Arts and Literature. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:47, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I could neither find sources attesting to the notability of this book or its author. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 19:57, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Forthcoming book. This is an exercise in naval=gazing. Carrite (talk) 22:41, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Carrite: The book appears to be out now, having released on August 13 [1] [2]. As a side note, I tried looking up the praise from people like Taylor Lorenz and Omer Benjakob from the Amazon listing, and these don't appear to originate from any review that would provide NBOOK coverage. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:04, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Search finds insufficient evidence of notability. The author recently wrote an opinion article for The Guardian, but there doesn't seem to be a review or any other mention of the book on that newspaper's site. The second source referred to by Hemiauchenia is an interview (2 mins, 53 secs) on KAMR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Amarillo, Texas; search brought up a similar interview segment on the Texas version of Good Morning America, on WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas: 4 mins, 44 secs, hosted on Harrison's YouTube channel. Harrison has also uploaded a one-hour discussion of the book. None of these is fully independent and the TV interviews don't appear to have been picked up beyond the regional market. Our standards for notability of books are quite low, but without at least one independent published review in a reliable source, IMO they aren't met here. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:37, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Likely a TOOSOON situation. Carrite (talk) 01:41, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as it doesn't meet WP:NBOOK. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:50, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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