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The result was redirect to Menotti Lerro. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 17:45, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Aforismi e pensieri. Cinquecento gocce dal mio mare[edit]

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (books) requirement. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:18, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:18, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: This one is pretty clear. Aphorisms in book form appearing one year after two books of poetry? The citations are ephemera so far as I can tell, and we're looking at someone who really seems to like this poet. I wonder what the Italian language Wikipedia says? Hithladaeus (talk) 14:03, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Does not meet WP:NBOOK. The Italian WP does not even have a page for the author, much less the individual books. LaMona (talk) 23:50, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Menotti_Lerro#Aphorisms. A look at the publisher shows that it's a self-publishing/on demand publisher. This doesn't mean that the book can't be notable, but it does make it far less likely that there will be coverage. All in all it's usually fairly rare for a self-published book to gain coverage. Sometimes the writer's notability can make it more likely that there will be coverage but this isn't a guarantee. I have no true opinion at this time about the author's notability, although the amount of books that come up to AfD does put his notability into question. In any case, I performed a search and I just can't find anything to show that this work is notable and would pass NBOOK. I'm starting to think that since there are so many Lerro related articles up for deletion that we should take a look at his notability to see if he passes WP:NAUTHOR or WP:NPROF. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:39, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm starting cleanup with the author's article. The unfortunate thing is that I'm finding that many of the otherwise promising sources are primary or otherwise unusable. Andrew Mangham works at the University of Reading, the college Lerro received his Master's Degree from. He also appears to be a visiting academic at UoR, so there's a tie there and it's well within the school's best interest to have someone write about someone that attended or is otherwise affiliated with them. I'll post this on some of the other AfD as well. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:54, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tokyogirl79, thank you for looking at the author's article. I had a glance at it and also thought that, after the removal of non-RS it might be greatly reduced. I will take a look at any Italian sources there. LaMona (talk) 14:51, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
LaMona, that would be wonderful- I used Google Translate as much as possible but there were a few sources that I was somewhat unsure of since I couldn't tell how they accepted reviews. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:08, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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