Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingdom of the Slavs

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) b uidhe 06:35, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kingdom of the Slavs

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Fails WP:N samrolken (talk) 12:53, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Samrolken, why do you say that this "Fails WP:N"? There's a substantial body of coverage about the book, its influence, and its importance. A brief Google search, for example, returns these among others: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. --Usernameunique (talk) 02:14, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"The 'subject' of a work means non-trivial treatment and excludes mere mention of the book" Wikipedia:Notability_(books)#cite_note-subject-1 While this book is mentioned and referred to a number of times, I don’t think the book itself has been the subject of enough coverage in reliable sources for it to be possible to make a good encyclopedia article about it. samrolken (talk) 15:16, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A very quick web search reveals a fair number of titles dedicated to the topic, including the following::

Husić, S. (2001). Territorial organisation of the narrative in" Il Regno de gli Slavi". In "Kraljevstvo Slavena" Mavra Orbinija.(Re) produkcijski okviri i recepcijski horizonti u četiristoljetnom trajanju.
Šanjek, Franjo (2001). Mavro Orbini: Uz 400. obljetnicu djela 'Il Regno de gli Slavi' // Hrvatska revija, I
Adinolfi, R. (2015). "Царството на славяните" от Мавро Орбини, руският превод на Сава Владиславич и изследванията по въпроса. Проглас, 24(2), 309-320.

– Uanfala (talk) 15:32, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:NEXIST. As Usernameunique says, it's easy to find high-quality sources writing about Orbini and Kingdom of the Slavs. For example:
- "Indetermi-Nation: Narrative identity and symbolic politics in early modern Illyrism" by Zrinka Blažević, in Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe], Koninklijke Brill (2010)
- Croatia: A Nation Formed in War by Marcus Tanner, Yale University Press (1997)
- Entangled Histories Of The Balkans - Volume One ed. by Roumen Dontchev Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov, Koninklijke Brill (2013)
- When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods by Larry Wolff, Stanford University Press (2002)
- Our Kingdom Come: The Counter-Reformation, the Republic of Dubrovnik, and the Liberation of the Balkan Slavs by Zdenko Zlatar, East European Monographs (1992)

These clearly demonstrate notability. I've added these sources to the article in a Further reading section so that editors who want to improve the article can use them as resources. -- Toughpigs (talk) 02:53, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: historically notable work, with a lot of sources out there about it. – Uanfala (talk) 15:32, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep possibly as Kingdom of the Slavs (book). It sounds as if it was a significant work historically. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:06, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. There may be a better title, but this definitely meets WP:N. Srnec (talk) 02:14, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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