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390:, "No prejudice against relisting this article at AfD after giving the authors a reasonable amount of time to work on these issues," combined with the "authors" subsequently being blocked, means (to me, at least) that they had had their chance and aren't likely to be improving this article any further. 273:
Keep. The references, including Oxford and the Library of Congress, pass the requirement for third party validation. Sockpuppets notwithstanding, information about the controversial embargo serves the public interest. Khrushchev endorsed the book, giving it additional third party vetting. I disclose
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For reasons given in previous AfD and stated by others above: book is self-published, has little publicity or sales, and is generally non-notable. If anything, it's a minor contribution in a flood of similar books. The fact that everything previously put in support of it turned out to be
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that I am a wikipedia inclusionist, I am married to a Cuban and am passionate about the issue. In addition, I have read parts of the book itself. I am not a paid editor.
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For reasons I stated in the first afd. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Sanz writing about his book and posting extracts is not independent.
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Previous AFD resulted in no consensus, but since then, nearly every editor who !voted keep has been blocked (see
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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is that this article should be deleted. No offense to the few good faith "keep" !voters.
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mischaracterizations by paid sockpuppets does not help the case for notability.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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