Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University Over the Abyss

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The result was Keep, withdrawn as James500 says he has found substantive coverage. (non-admin closure) Catrìona (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

University Over the Abyss[edit]

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I proded the article because I could not find any secondary coverage (let enough WP:NBOOK) and ~~one of the authors of the book was the main contributor to the article.~~ Atlantic306 deproded the article with the summary: "Deprod- these books could be rs with pagevnumbers." It's hard to see how the books could be references to the subject of the article, since most of them were published first. Since this is disputed, I'm taking it to AfD. Catrìona (talk) 20:20, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

- Can you give details of whether the author created the article ? was he a translater ? thanks (talk) 20:30, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Atlantic306: Never mind, I seem to have gotten mixed up with one of usernames being similar. However, that doesn't solve the problem with NBOOK. Catrìona (talk) 20:35, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. IntoThinAir (talk) 20:36, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Satisfies GNG and NBOOK. Book review in the periodical European Judaism: [1]. Coverage equivalent to a book review in annotated bibliography: [2] [3]. That coverage was found quickly on a non-exhaustive search in English (and this book has been published in other languages). Multiple editions in English of 2000 and 2004, and a number of translations including Czech (Prague, 2002) [4] (both editions and translations are an indicator of popularity). The author Elena Makarova has more than 900 library holdings [5], so she is obviously notable, and that brings ATD, PRESERVE and R into play. (Victor Kuperman, Sergei Makharov and Nuala Archer also have hundreds of library holdings). James500 (talk) 01:33, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I will withdraw this nomination, AGFing that those reviews are there (since they are paywalled, I cannot verify). But as far as I know, the number of library holdings is not a proxy for the author's notability; it isn't mentioned in WP:NAUTHOR. Catrìona (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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