Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fixed Future

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The result was no consensus. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:06, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Fixed Future

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Appears to fail WP:NBOOK: unable to find significant coverage in either English or Korean. Seems to have been written mostly by the author. Ploni (talk) 16:46, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature, Economics, Korea, and South Korea. Ploni (talk) 16:46, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Update: For whatever is worth, the author of the book denies being involved in writing the wikipedia article on the book. Al83tito (talk) 16:36, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Al83tito Where is that denial, out of curiosity? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:10, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Piotrus: off Wikipedia; private inquiry. Al83tito (talk) 14:33, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I see zero indication that the main contributors, who wrote this while they were students in Piotrus's course in 2019, have any conflict of interest. I tried to assess notability but unfortunately, I'm having a hard time parsing Korean-language sources. DanCherek (talk) 21:10, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My flagging of a possible COI was from the similarity of the main contributor's account name (User:Chaeyoung907) and the author of the book (Cho Young-tae). That said, if this was a student project then it seems very unlikely. –Ploni (talk) 21:19, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Despite a similar name, I can assure you that my student was not the book author :) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:10, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. While the article warrants some copyediting tags (for language and style), it passes WP:GNG. RS coverage of the book includes a review in major Korean newspaper (Kyunghyang Shinmun), and a review by an NGO ([1]). I am unsure if [2] is a reliable source, and I am having trouble verifying some other sources (MT from Korean to English is still meh), but I think the coverage found by the students show that minimum requirements for GNG/NBOOK (which I interpret as at least two reviews in reliable, independent sources) is met. The odds are there is more but students failed to find it (Korean academic reviews), so a Korean speaker may be able to help us more here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:19, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think I would need to have a further look at the refs, but just looking quickly, I don't think there's much COI here. It's poorly written, and needs c/e, but I don't think it's ad like. VickKiang (talk) 03:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 23:23, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.