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Perl Cookbook

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No independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Google search reveals blog posts and reader reviews at Amazon and elsewhere, but no formal reviews that qualify as reliable sources WP:RS. Wikipedia is not a catalog WP:NOTCATALOG. Msnicki (talk) 21:30, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. One of many programming books. Not clear how this one is more notable than average book of this kind. FuFoFuEd (talk) 00:09, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~The whole~~ A lot of the O'Reilly catalog appears to have been copied onto WP; see Category:O'Reilly Media books. I assume good faith WP:AGF and that many contributors to these pages thought they were doing the right thing. But WP is not a catalog WP:NOTCATALOG and it's pretty unlikely there are sources to establish notability WP:GNG for most if not all of these books. Msnicki (talk) 18:32, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

O'Reilly has way more books than that. But those which do have pages here seem to have been selected on editors' interests. A lot of Perl stuff for instance, probably because some of the Perl consultants edit here. FuFoFuEd (talk) 19:12, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]