Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hledání antipoda

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Kurykh 00:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hledání antipoda

Foreign language collection of short stories ~~with which the editor seems to have WP:COI issues~~. I believe it fails notability for books. Douglasmtaylor ^T/C 11:07, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay,why exactly do czech books articles get deleted,though they are detailed enough,but things such as The Survivor and Others ,although being only proclaimed a Lovecraft/Derleth colaboration and not having any significance to Lovecraft and has no text on the books contents, merely the "contents" and information about the edition,are kept?

And dont tell me its not notable,what IS notable on the short article of "The survivor" if there practicaly nothing there?

PS:Conflict of interests?

New Babylon 2 11:49, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - My apologies for the COI comment. I've struck it through. I believe I was looking at three different things at once and thought your edit history had only this book in it. The reason I didn't {{prod}} the article and brought it here instead was because I can't check secondary sources in the Czech language with any authority to establish the book's notability. I am not familiar with the articles that you mentioned above. If they're not suitable for Wikipedia, then feel free to nominate them for deletion. This is simply a process wherein I am asking other editors to review and comment on my feelings about your article, it certainly isn't a guarantee of deletion. And I certainly don't target Czechs or anything like that. I came across your article because of typos, not because I was out looking for Czech-related articles to nominate for deletion. Douglasmtaylor ^T/C 11:55, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. The author, Alexej Pludek, was known as a fringe Communist and anti-Semite. He wrote several books, none of which is apparently notable enough to have its own article on Czech Wikipedia. Google produces only a handful of hits, none of them relevant. Google Books yields nada. A search in the Czech National Library catalog [1] reveals this book had only one edition, in 1986. I reckon this this book can be considered not notable enough. The article itself indicates only 63,000 copies were printed. (BTW, that and the book's price are totally useless in an encyclopedia article!)--Targeman 13:42, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - some notable english sentences are in brackets affecting readability. Onnaghar (speak.work) 14:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. Alexej Pludek was a relatively popular Czech writer. His most known work are three loosely connected historical novels (which would deserve an article). He also got engaged in politics obtaining label of anti-semite (and other epithet's) in the process.

My first reaction was to vote delete since this book is neither his best (I'd read it and didn't struck me as a great work) nor he's known because of it. The text would require quite a lot of grammar checking.
On the other hand, the trend (which I welcome) on WP is to cover even books that are not bestsellers. Article for a novel that was read by thousand or more people has a chance to be maintainable and could be useful for a few. In the future, hopefully, it will be possible to systematically link to online editions and WP could then serve as a starting point for readers.
That Czech Wiki doesn't cover Pludek's works is because it is a small Wiki which covers maybe 1% of what it eventually should. Pavel Vozenilek 23:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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