Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) -- Cheers, Riley Huntley 00:25, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats)

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Non-notable new polemic; not every book reviewed in National Review or Publishers Weekly is thereby rendered notable. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:09, 25 November 2012 (UTC) Orange Mike | Talk 00:09, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Perhaps not every book (or every anything) reviewed at Publisher's weekly is notable. But this book has been reviewed not just with a press release, but in the leading journals and magazines relevant to its topic - all I see have their own wiki pages. The reviews are in depth article-length essays, and well written. The author is among the most notable academics and scientists, and that generates the initial outgoing and incoming links for this article It is unclear (with no references) why you call it a polemic - implies you have read it? – That's perhaps opinion, in mine it isn't. But that's beside the point. It is, as one might expect from the author, well argued, and footnoted. It argues a case which has caught many readers and reviewer's attention (as evidenced by articles in leading social science journals), and has garnered significant attention, both positive and negative: That's my definition of notable. Tim bates (talk) 00:45, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It appears the reviews in the National Review and Commentary Magazine are completely legit and in and of themselves are enough to establish notability. I see nothing in the New York times citation on the book, rather just a passing mention of the author. The PDF appears to be an academic paper and as such a primary source, not really acceptable for notability. But the two reviews should be enough to satisfy notability as they are in national publications of wide circulation. Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Reviews in Commentary and National Review are more than sufficient to establish notability. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:16, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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