Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Water as a Catalyst for Peace

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The result was redirect to Ahmed Abukhater. (non-admin closure) czar · · 02:46, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Water as a Catalyst for Peace

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Notability not established per WP:NBOOK. The whole "Description" section appears to be copyvio. ELEKHH^T 01:27, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. czar · · 01:39, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. czar · · 01:39, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. czar · · 01:40, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Ahmed Abukhater. A search quickly shows that this book hasn't even released yet and definitely has not had the coverage necessary to pass notability guidelines before its official release. The thing about textbooks and scholarly works is that it's not really a guarantee that they'll pass. These things either gain a ton of coverage and accolades or (more normally) they never gain the amount of coverage necessary to pass notability guidelines. This isn't a slur against Abukhater- there are a lot of very, very brilliant people who write very good books that never gain enough attention to establish notability. I think that it's feasible enough to redirect to his article, although I'll note that his page looks like it could use some cleaning in general. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:30, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Tokyogirl79 and WP:TOOSOON. hmssolent\^{You rang?} _{ship's log} 03:33, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The description section is updated.
The book is available now for pre-order and also promoted through Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415642132/
The book review section includes endorsements from leaders in the field (such as Franklin M. Fisher of MIT and Lawrence Susskind of MIT and Harvard Law School), which outline the notability of the book and its approach. --PeterDandy (talk) 15:01, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

— Note to closing admin: PeterDandy (talk • contribs) is the creator of the page that is the subject of this AfD. czar · · 02:45, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Simply being endorsed by notable persons isn't sufficient for a textbook to be notable in itself. If this textbook attains notability in the future (which it very well could), then in my opinion that could be a good thing. For now, though, it needs to be treated as another textbook, per WP:TOOSOON. Chri$topher 23:22, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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