Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houston Blue

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The result was keep‎. Star Mississippi 13:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Houston Blue

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Seemingly non-notable book with only a singular review, no metric of impact or popularity, and written by an author pair who themselves do not appear to lend much (if any) notability. I was unable to find any further mentions of this book by independent, non-automatically generated sources online.

In summary, a small book that did not seem to either sell or garner any amount of critical reception. A MINOTAUR (talk) 17:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Police and Texas. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:20, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature and History. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Wikipedia:Notability (books) has the following notability criterion: "The book has been the subject[1] of two or more non-trivial[2] published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself." If it passes this criteria (there are two, independent, non-trivial published works about this book!), then it's notable. Any work only needs to meet one criterion on NBOOKS to be notable. Indeed a Houston Chronicle article by Jennifer Pearson is independent of the book, and so is the article in the The Journal of Southern History. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:15, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. In addition to the two reviews already present in the article, Proquest finds two short reviews (Houston blue; the story of the Houston Police Department. Reference and Research Book News. Portland Vol. 28, Iss. 1, (Feb 2013). & Romance, psycho keep mystery alive Standard Times San Angelo. 11 Jan 2013: O.2.) and a long prepublication piece (NEW BOOK SHARES TALES OF HOUSTON ' BLUES' US Fed News Service, Including US State News; Washington, D.C.. 24 Aug 2012.). From Ebscosearch, it is also described as among "several seminal works deal with the issue of police misconduct" ( Esparza, Jesús Jesse. Brown, Black, and Brutalized: A Brief History of Police Brutality Against Chicanos and African Americans in Houston. Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South. Spring/Summer2023, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p45-78). Espresso Addict (talk) 23:08, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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