Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leyndardómar Reykjavíkur 2000

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Rollidan (talk) 16:44, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Leyndardómar Reykjavíkur 2000[edit]

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Fails GNG. Not much coverage online though I'm limited to English sources. Unsourced since November 2006. Anarchyte (talk | work) 14:00, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Anarchyte (talk | work) 14:00, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iceland-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:12, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I've re-written the article using four sources, including two non-promotional (actually quite negative) book-reviews and two news articles. This ought to do under WP:BOOKS and WP:GNG even if just barely. In addition, many of the authors are notable and a print run of 8000 copies is decent by Icelandic standards. Haukur (talk) 19:19, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are these sources book reviews or feature articles? What sort of publications were they published in?E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:35, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, let's do an overview. The two key sources here are as follows:

A book review in the newspaper Dagur by Kolbrún Bergþórsdóttir. This is an independent review of the sort the first part of WP:NBOOK applies to. It's a credible newspaper, a credible journalist (plausibly the best known critic in Iceland) and the review is quite negative which makes it even more obvious that it is not paid promotion or anything like that.

A book review in the web publication Múrinn by Katrín Jakobsdóttir. This is also a credible (and negative) review; the author is an expert on Icelandic crime fiction.

Together these two reviews fulfill WP:NBOOK: "The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself." The other two sources (newspaper articles in Morgunblaðið and Dagur) are basically regurgitated press releases and don't matter to establish notability, but they help flesh out the text of the article. Haukur (talk) 00:07, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(earlier comment edited slightly) I've now also added a citation to a 2001 book by Katrín Jakobsdóttir which briefly discusses the work. It's such a short discussion that it doesn't add much to the notability case. Haukur (talk) 14:43, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Harkur.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as Harkur's expansion meets both GNG and WP:NBOOK-1 MarginalCost (talk) 15:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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