Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights

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The result was keep‎. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:38, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights

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Doesn't meet WP:NBOOK. I've searched for reviews on Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and School Library Journal, as well as general searches on Google and Google Scholar, and haven't found any sources to meet notability guidelines. I would suggest redirecting to the author's page (A.J. Healy), at least for now. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 02:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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~~Redirect~~ to author as suggested. The only thing I found in Wikipedia Library was a routine book announcement in Publishers' Weekly: "Tommy Storm debuts with Tommy Storm and Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights by A.J. Healy ($8.99 each, 9-12)." Definitely no NBOOK in sight. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 06:22, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Keep per Cunard's excellent finds below, which give us the 2+ reviews we need for NBOOK1. Thanks, too, for adding material from these to the article! (Also, on reflection, a better alternative to deletion would have been a merge to Tommy Storm, but that's beside the point now.) ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:36, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria says:
A book is presumed notable if it verifiably meets, through reliable sources, at least one of the following criteria:
1. The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself. This can include published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries, bestseller lists, and reviews. This excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book.
Sources
1. "A right royal a scandal". Sunday Mercury. 2009-10-18. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  The review notes: "The second book in the series from Irish writer AJ Healy starts just after Tommy and his four knight friends have been captured by gangster Nack Jikilson - and when they escape he follows them across the galaxy. ... Tommy Storm is not a particularly likeable character, and although this book is riddled with intelligent crossreferences meant to amuse, it just comes across as though it's trying too hard to impress. Billed as a comedy adventure, it's not that funny and the adventure is confusing. However, being confusing means that it's unpredictable to the end, and it is heart-warming in parts."
2. Thompson, Mary Shine (2009-11-14). "Gems of gloom and global warming". Irish Times. ProQuest 309197507.
  The review notes: "Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights (Quercus, £6.99) is a sequel (but of course) to Tommy Storm, and its narrator helpfully advises readers that they can skip the generous footnotes and information boxes. The book is crammed with characters with names such as A-Sad-Bin-Liner and the kind of smart-alec ripostes, puns (there's a Straddlevarious violin) and exclamations that many youngsters find hilarious. You will get the drift if I tell you that Tommy and Co outwit a monster and mount an offensive against chocolate terrorists to save the universe."
3. The author's website^{Internet Archive} notes: "The Sunday Tribune included Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights in its Top-Ten list of "the best crossover reads" - being "books that parents can sneak a look at while the kids are doing their homework. Fables that work on one level for kids, and on a mythic level for adults. Books that engage on the kind of emotional plane that some adult novels can only aspire to. And so, in the wake of the Potter and Twilight sagas, here are 10 of the best books to get all ages squabbling this Christmas over who gets to read them first." Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights is, they say, "an enjoyable romp, full of fizz and humour.""
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 12:36, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Cunard's sources. Toughpigs (talk) 00:34, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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