Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Getting Free

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The article cites no WP:RS, only primary sources, and I can find no reviews or discussion in secondary sources. The article, therefore, appears to fail WP:GNG. I don't see that this meets any of the criteria of WP:BKCRIT either - in particular, it has won no major awards and the author is not sufficiently notable to make his works implicitly notable. GoldenRing (talk) 11:47, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

• Delete and redirect title to author article. Fails WP:GNG for lack of reliable, independent sources.- MrX 13:47, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
• Keep Thirteen other books are on the author's article. What is different about this one? More research needed.--DThomsen8 (talk) 18:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

::If you want to suggest other RS that discuss the book, feel very free. Where do you suggest looking? Searching news, newspapers, books, scholar and JSTOR for '"getting free" "nigel hinton"' shows up exactly one result - a single mention in The Glasgow Herald which doesn't even amount to a single sentence. What further research do you suggest? As for the other other thirteen, well, WP:OTHERSTUFF. This one happened to cross my path. GoldenRing (talk) 02:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

On initial research, I only found 1 that can be used as a source.{{cite web|author=Kirkus Review of Getting Free |title=Getting Free by Nigel Hinton|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nigel-hinton-2/getting-free/|publisher=Kirkus |no-tracking=yes |accessdate=2015-02-03}} Seeing the lack of supporting references, I would have to agree that it indeed does not meet the aforementioned criteria.Pmanz2014 || Let's Connect 12:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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• delete I was unable to find any non-trivial reviews or mentions of the book. Deunanknute (talk) 22:42, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.

  1. {{cite news |date=1979-12-18 |title=Getting Free Kirkus Review |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nigel-hinton-2/getting-free/ |newspaper=Kirkus Reviews |accessdate=2015-02-12 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6WIayz9jo |archivedate=2015-02-12 }}
  2. {{cite news |date=1979 |title=British Book News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=958aAAAAMAAJ&q=Getting+Free+Nigel+Hinton |newspaper=British Book News |publisher=British Council |accessdate=2015-02-12 }}

     The review notes (from the Google snippet):

     Getting Free has many of the remarkable qualities which distinguished Mr Hinton's first novel, Collision Course (OUP, 1976). For one thing, it is compulsive reading. It begins: 'Johanna's hands were trembling as she picked up"...

  3. {{cite news |date=1978|title=Getting Free |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZkeAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Getting+Free+Nigel%22+Hinton |newspaper=The Junior Bookshelf |accessdate=2015-02-12 }}

     The review notes (from the Google snippet):

     With insight and understanding Nigel Hinton tells the story of two teenage lovers and their struggle to get free and live their own life. ...

  4. {{cite book |date=1981 |title=The Use of English |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDEkAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Getting+Free%22+Nigel+Hinton |publisher=Scottish Academic Press |volume=33 |page=187 |accessdate=2015-02-12 }}

     The book notes (from the Google snippet):

     Nigel Hinton's Getting Free contains many elements familiar from the traditional adventure srory — pursuit, a spell spent snow-bound in a lonely cottage, a desperate drive in search of help, assorted eccentrics, a hint of the supernatural.

  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Getting Free to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard (talk) 01:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

:*Other sources can be found through [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22Getting+Free%22+Nigel+Hinton this Google Books search]. Cunard (talk) 01:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• weak keep - the Kirkus page is a summary not a review, and I can't tell if the others are in depth/sales/etc. Deunanknute (talk) 01:43, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

:*Here is another source about the subject:

1. {{cite journal |last=Crabbe |first=Katharyn F. |last2=Gerhardt |first2=Lillian N. |date=November 1978 |title=Getting Free (Book Review) |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/5756654/getting-free-book-review |journal=School Library Journal |publisher=Media Source Inc. |volume=25 |issue=3 |page=74 |accessdate=2015-02-13 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6WK4ki72A |archivedate=2015-02-13 }}

The abstract says "Reviews the book 'Getting Free,' by Nigel Hinton."

Cunard (talk) 00:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Keep Technically notable. (SLJ is a source for notability; Kirkus was at the time--though it no longer is. BBNews is not.). Of the other novels, most should be merged --the 4 Beaver Towers books are not appropriate for 4 separate article. . WorldCat shows [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/np-hinton,%20nigel their library holdings]: this is 4th with 154. DGG ( talk ) 12:35, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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