Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

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The result was userfied. Writ Keeper (t + c) 15:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia[edit]

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This memoir is not notable, simply put. That it's published by the American Management Association does not help either. A search on Google News produces a substantial number of results, but look carefully: many of them, such as this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this (there's more) are all opinion pieces and such by the author himself, placed on various "news" sites all over the world, in which the author is careful to mention his own book and his website. There are a few somewhat valid hits--this is a review on an institute's web page (not really an acceptable medium for reviews, and it's a reprint from the reviewer's blog); this is a piece of some sort on a news site whose reliability is questionable; and this--well, this is in a "entertainment/celebrity news and review publication" whose notability and reliability I doubt. In short, lacking relevant reviews published in reliable sources, delete. Drmies (talk) 15:03, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Solid fact-checking, Drmies. I can't find anything aside from passing mentions, either. No indication of notability. m.o.p 16:20, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:31, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:31, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Good work. --John (talk) 17:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I contest this deletion on the grounds that the manuscript is notable enough to be required reading for humanity classes pertaining to genocide by professors at universities. Due to RL and other issues, I've not yet had time to complete the article, and request worst case scenario it be placed in User:Technical_13/Drafts/Not My Turn to Die_(book) as a userspace draft until such a time as I can edit it and complete it. Thank you for your consideration. — User:Technical 13 ( C • M • View signature as intended) 15:40, 3 April 2013 (UTC) -- comment/request copied from talkpage of blocked user. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:09, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Userfication is fine, I suppose. (Not enough time--you started this in November of 2011, and you had enough time to do all this.) As for "required reading", that cannot usually be proved by secondary sources, and even if it were is probably not sufficient to establish notability. Drmies (talk) 23:36, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Agree with Drmies on this one. Not notable enough. Vaca tion 9 21:05, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: in the interest of full disclosure, a little birdie dropped an old copy of the Financial Times on my doorstep, with three paragraphs on our subject. Drmies (talk) 03:12, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Now that I have been unblocked: I contest this deletion on the grounds that the manuscript is notable enough to be required reading for humanity classes pertaining to genocide by professors at universities, so I'm sure I can dig up enough reliable sources outside of course syllabi. Due to RL and other issues, I had not yet had time to complete the article, and request worst case scenario it be placed in User:Technical 13/Drafts/Not My Turn to Die (book) as a userspace draft until such a time as I can edit it and complete it. Thank you for your consideration. Technical 13 (talk) 15:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've moved it myself and WP:CSDed the redirect with G6 (if someone wants to get that) since that is where the consensus was heading anyways. Feel free to close this discussion and I apologize for not creating this as a WP:USD in the first place. Technical 13 (talk) 15:37, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.