Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Introduction to Comparative Politics

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:47, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction to Comparative Politics

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This seems to be a very highly cited academic book. In any case I was not able to find anything on the book itself or any of its editions; my effort was confounded by the amount of citations that say nothing about it, but I did try, and came up empty PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:05, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:05, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Satisfies WP:TBK. 200+ GScholar citations (190+4+4+3). Eight editions. The book is required reading at numerous universities, such as [1] [2] that come up on a search for "Introduction to ComparativePolitics"+kesselman+reading+site:.edu. There is coverage of the book, for example in this. I do not think we can delete a book on the basis that there are "too many" citations and the nominator says he does not have time to look at all of them, especially when simultaneously confronted with multiple nominations of this kind. James500 (talk) 10:20, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I mean I spent about an hour looking for sources and came up empty at the time. TBK is vague, again, there are no clear "passing" criteria as there is with NBOOK, it's basically just "use common sense". But that one source you found looks good and other sources have been found so I have no issues with that now. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:20, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: At least three book reviews for different editions, which passes WP:NBOOK. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 23:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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