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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:50, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Is a single review in a specialist journal enough to confer notability? There is nothing in the article to suggest why this book is notable. TheLongTone (talk) 12:54, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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• Is the single review all that there is? Did you did anything to find out? If so, what? An AFD nomination request is not a question requesting other people to do the work to see whether something is notable. It's an explanation of what you did to determine how deletion policy applies, and justification for an administrator pressing the delete button.

  Personally, I think that Pavol Štekauer spends more time talking about Bauer's theses than the actual book (which I would use for discussion of Bauer's work in Laurie Bauer and of course in various linguistics articles where appropriate), and J.R.Hartford might be a little too shallow given that it is contemporary with the book's publication. But do you even know why I am mentioning these names? Where did you look for sources? What did you find? Answering those is how to do this properly.

  Uncle G (talk) 13:30, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per WP:BEFORE and WP:NBOOK. The book was subject to multiple reviews and critiques in its time, and it made a significant contribution to scholarship. I listed a few additional sources on the article's talk page. (The book has probably also been taught in university and post-graduate programs, but I don't have syllabuses to support that assumption.) Cnilep (talk) 01:10, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep We have a notable professor writing a book published by a university press in 1983. I was confident it was notable before I even started looking and sure enough I fairly easily found a source like this and this which calls it a classic in the first sentence. This isn't even close to borderline for me. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:18, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Laurie Bauer - this is not a long article, in fact it is only a sentence long, and could be merged with the article on the book's author without too much difficulty. Vorbee (talk) 07:58, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It is a classic linguistics book and it will be expanded in the future.Ali Pirhayati (talk) 08:33, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: I'm finding quite a bit out there about this book, but a lot of it is hidden behind paywalls that I can't access. While Google Scholar has its obvious shortcomings, I want to note that the book is shown to be cited over 3,000 times - something that gives off the impression that there's enough out there to justify its own article. Since the book was released in the 80s it's a little tough finding sourcing, but it's definitely mentioned in books like this and this. What this needs is someone who has access to these materials and is familiar with the book to come and flesh it out. I'll try to do what I can, but my ability will be fairly limited. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:30, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• I've asked for help from the linguistics WP to see if someone there is familiar with the book and can build upon what I've added to the article. (Not to vote in the AfD, just to expand the article since I think that notability has pretty much been established.) I've done about what I can with what I can find in paywall previews and the like. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 23:52, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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