Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Poppykettle Papers

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The result of the debate was keep. Rossami (talk) 23:05, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

The Poppykettle Papers

"Delete non-notable story book. It has an Amazon sales rank of about 821,000th and 397 Google hits. This arose from the VfD for Poppykettle as an attempt to hold onto that article as a redirect, but I think this book is non-notable anyway. I mean no bad-faith here. -Splash 5 July 2005 21:22 (UTC)

• Keep — I've had my mind changed by Harmil's excellent research. -Splash 17:27, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

• keep, I do not think this book is non-notable, robert ingpen, the illustrator, is not entirely unkbown either. Nitable enough for Wikipedia methinks --Isolani 5 July 2005 22:38 (UTC)
• Delete: NN --Alex12 3 6 July 2005 00:46 (UTC)
  • Keep: Published book. Author turns up a couple thousand Googles. Good enough. --Alex12 3 9 July 2005 14:34 (UTC)
• Delete non notable. JamesBurns 6 July 2005 01:35 (UTC)
• Keep I'm the author of this page, but not the original VfDed page (Poppykettle). I created this because a) the original was mistitled b) the original was poorly formatted spam c) the original referenced a fairly well known work by a fairly well known illustrator, author and publisher. The fact that it's a low Amazon sales rank (please note: sales rank above is incorrect, as it fails to take into account the much higher rank of the paperback) when it's a 6-year-old coffee table childrens book is not shocking. If this is removed, does that mean we're VfDing all of the SF novels on WP that rank low on Amazon? True Names, a classic SF collection would be removed as its current published form has a similar rank as the paperback version of this book. This current-popularity view of books would seem to be a criteria new to encyclopedias. -Harmil 6 July 2005 01:44 (UTC)

Some extra info for those still undecided: I've added a page which describes the Poppykettle Festival, a festival held annually to celebrate this story (actually, the two books which this book was an update of) in Australia. IMHO any book which is celebrated by thousands of people every year can't really be considered non-notable.... -Harmil 09:43, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Published books (except vanity press creations.) Xoloz 6 July 2005 03:58 (UTC)
• Keep. How many books have a festival inspired by and about them? I went to that as a child. Ambi 03:05, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: A popular author/artist and a culturally significant book, even if not widely known outside Australia.

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