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Regionrat

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Fails WP:NBOOK. Unsourced since creation. Prod contested in 2006, concern was "Spam/advertising. Judging by the creator's user-name, it's an ill-disguised attempt at self-promotion." Vrac (talk) 00:56, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 01:44, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 01:44, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - nothing suggests that this presumably self-published book is notable.--Rpclod (talk) 04:51, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

From what I can see, this isn't self-published since the publisher doesn't appear to be connected to the author. That's more of an aside, though. I'm finding little to show that this book is notable. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:48, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: A longstanding WP:SPA article whose editor name is close to that of the book's author. Amazon has a review which looks to be a copy-paste of a short piece of at-publication local media coverage, but searches (Highbeam, Google) are turning up nothing to indicate that this meets WP:NBOOK or WP:GNG criteria. AllyD (talk) 06:18, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The only halfway decent mention I could find was in this journal article, which is only a brief passing mention via them quoting his book. That isn't enough to warrant the book having an article, so I'll have to go with a delete on this as well. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:51, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Does not meet WP:NBOOK, have only been able to find these - [1] - a short university paper book review, [2] - The Region Rat: Folkloristic Contexts of People and Place, a discussion of the term, not the book. but happy for a redirect to Northwest Indiana, the region in question (maybe a section of the article can talk about the term, and mention the book?). Coolabahapple (talk) 21:29, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]