Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Who Asked the First Question?

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The result was redirect to Joseph Jordania. And delete. Sandstein 06:02, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Who Asked the First Question?

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This article is about a non-notable self-published work. The pdf can be downloaded here. The author of the work has been blocked in the past for using sock puppets to promote his own work here and cross-link them with each other and his own article. One of those sock puppets is the original creator of this particular article. Dusty|💬|You can help! 13:31, 27 August 2013 (UTC)|[reply]

Speedy delete per nom. Obviously a poor attempt to misuse Wikipedia for shameless self-promotion. Laval (talk) 13:50, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete - As per above and per nom. Eduemoni ^↑talk↓ 13:56, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:45, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:45, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I found a link to the Koizumi Fumio Prize, but it looks like it was given to Jordania for his work in general rather than the book specifically. (Annual (2009) Koizumi Fumio Prize) I'll try to do a cleanup of this and stubbify it if necessary. Offhand I'd probably suggest just redirecting it to the author's page if sources can't be found. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:48, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am finding some claim of it being used as a reference for other things, such as this Oxford Press book and in this book review that references the work in relation to something else. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:09, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Also this journal article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:11, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Joseph Jordania. I found where this work is referenced, but not heavily enough to merit it being kept on that basis alone. I'll note that this article is pretty much a mess and the article for Jordania itself needs some pretty heavy editing to prune it down to a manageable size. I don't know if this is a case of a person setting out to deliberately create a promotional article or if it's a case of an overly enthusiastic student that decided to create what sort of boils down to a fan page for their professor. They do exist, believe it or not. I've already redirected one of his other works to his article and I'd suggest the same here. I'm finding just enough to where I could argue a keep of sorts for Jordania, but his works aren't independently notable. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:18, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I like the notion of the redirect. Also, kudos to Tokyogirl79 for her work to improve the Joseph Jordania article. Dusty|💬|You can help! 16:25, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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