Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blood and Iron (novel)

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The result was redirect to Blood and Iron. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:42, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Blood and Iron (novel)[edit]

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non-notable fiction Sadads (talk) 09:24, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - have a look at the reviews on amazon. They're hardly prestigious awards but collectively, do they push this novel over the line? - Richard Cavell (talk) 11:53, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Amazon reviews are usually not a good source. If we can find them in other sources that is much better. Take for example one of the cited reviews from http://navyhistory.com/, if you take a look at the cite, you will see it hardly meets our standard for sources. The Amazon reviews are also the edited snippets by publishers most of the time, so it won't show you anything meaningful. Sadads (talk) 11:58, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And on the matter of rewards, I would much rather see the reward reference-able from another site. Amazon is too interested in selling the book, not necessarily representing it accurately. Sadads (talk) 12:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete/redirect ~~to Elizabeth Bear, a genuinely notable writer with a much more notable novel with the same title as this POD project~~ per the IP editor's comment below. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 03:14, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and redirect to the dab page Blood and Iron. We already have ANOTHER novel by this name, currently using the title American Empire: Blood and Iron. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 04:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious merge to author. Freakshownerd (talk) 22:49, 1 August 2010 (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.