Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen

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The result was keep. Shii (tock) 18:08, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen

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Fails WP:NOTE. Topic has not received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Aside from one article by Robert Parry [1], the only other coverage has been hagiographical conflict of interest material from the Unification Church-owned and Sun Myung Moon-founded paper The Washington Times. I searched multiple databases, but unfortunately I was unable to find any independent book reviews. Cirt (talk) 03:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. —Cirt (talk) 03:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. —Cirt (talk) 03:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep This book was also released in Korea which means the Korean news should be searched as well coverage here [2], the Korean name "평화를 사랑하는 세계인으로" gets over a hundred hits on naver news [3]. Its noted as #15 on the bestseller list last week [4] in Korea.--Crossmr (talk) 05:51, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are these independent reliable secondary sources? Cirt (talk) 05:54, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes they are. Naver news is the equivalent of google news in Korea since google generally only indexes the major Korean english newspapers. The bestseller list is published by Yonhap news agency. Newsis (the first news article) website is here [5]. They're a major news organization.--Crossmr (talk) 05:59, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll do a good faith withdrawn by nominator on this one. I could close it, if that is okay with you? Cirt (talk) 06:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Here is further coverage of the English launch by another Korean news outlet [6].--Crossmr (talk) 06:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will defer to someone else to close the AfD. Cirt (talk) 06:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid Cirt is right on this one. There simply aren't sources to support an article yet. There's probably little doubt that there will be at some point (probably soon, if past media patterns in response to Sun Myung Moon / Unification Church issues are any indication), but not now. Ed, you should have waited until there was significant coverage; you really should take this opportunity to learn that articles need reliable sources. -96.241.34.39 (talk) 06:06, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Come again? I just pointed to several reliable sources. There are plenty of reliable sources. They might not be english, but there is no requirement that they be in English.--Crossmr (talk) 07:10, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[7] here a news article talks about the book setting a record with 200,000 copies for the first edition. [8] this article is about some kind of competition possibly celebrating the book (still working on this one), Here it is at the #4 bestseller spot in July in Korea [9] in its category. Its been on various bestseller lists for months. Another article on the book [10], etc etc, I'm only about a third of a way through the naver news results. More than significant coverage, more than notable.--Crossmr (talk) 08:15, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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