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The result was keep. ✗plicit 00:12, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lonjah and the Ogre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Another unremarkable Arabic novel. Part of a recent slough of these. References do not demonstrate notability. A loose necktie (talk) 18:07, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature and Algeria. Shellwood (talk) 18:58, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The nominator needs to stop putting these up for deletion without checking Arabic sources. Firstly they are not “unremarkable” Arab novels. They have been selected as among the 100 best novels in Arabic by the Arab Writers Union. That doesn’t guarantee their notability in Wikipedia terms but it gives us a pretty strong presumption. Sure enough I can easily find a review, a journal article on the novel’s narrative structure, another journal article on symbolism in the novel and a masters thesis about it. That took about two minutes and I haven’t looked more extensively but notability is clearly demonstrated. Mccapra (talk) 20:42, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and overhaul. The article needs to make clear who ranked it among the 100 best novels in Arabic. The article is lacking that context. As an administrator, this article showed up in a flurry of hashtagged articles from some unspecified contest. The only reason I didn't redirect it was the claim of the 100 best list: that seemed enough to indicate significance or importance. @Mccapra: Can you put some effort in on these to clean them up? —C.Fred (talk) 22:11, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, another wikinotable book that meets WP:NBOOK as demonstrated by the above editors. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:35, 24 June 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.