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446:. Not sure whether this book is notable or not, but I would question whether anyone has checked print sources from the year of publication of the book (1973) for reviews. If there are adequate reviews, then the book is notable. The book is widely cited, which suggests but does not prove notability. 365:
One I saw was reliable. But keep in mind that a mere citation or mention doesn't make something notable, multiple notable third party reliable source has to cover the topic in a nontrivial way. Nothing in that gives any indication of more than trivial attention paid by sources that are largely not
87: 82: 91: 74: 392:, they are all from very fringe sources wich don't appear to be notable. In google books it appears listed in UFO bibliography listings, but the description of its entry is exclusively about his author and his role on the NICAP 400:. (no redirect, since the value of the redirect appears to be quite low, it's unlikely that someone writes all of the title with the correct capitalization in all the worlds, the search engine will find the author's page) -- 393: 463:. Article makes no assertion of notability, and lacks sources outside the subject's own claims. And how many simialr vanity pressed 'tell-all about aliens' books are there? dozens? hundreds? 297:- Since this was published more than 30 years ago it's difficult to find evidence of notability using online sources but I was able to find a large number of other works that cite this book. 120: 211: 568: 547: 522: 505: 472: 455: 438: 409: 375: 356: 338: 310: 298: 289: 264: 247: 226: 201: 168: 140: 56: 78: 255:. It's an argument to avoid if it's not true. A lack of reliable sources about it, and no arguments of notability in the article, however, is a reason. 70: 62: 594: 239: 17: 484:. The Amazon link shows that it is mentioned in books, but there is no way to tell how big of a mention is in the books. 625: 36: 136: 49: 390: 624:
Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The lunatic fringe cites the lunatic fringe. That does not establish notability from reliable sources.--
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Evidence of the book's n0tability is lacking. Could be listed in the
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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as being way far away from Wikipedi's standards for notability.
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
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StarM
22:48, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Aliens from Space: The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects
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