Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Elements of Java Style

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The result was delete‎. If Cunard can't find sufficient sourcing, it doesn't exist. Star Mississippi 16:08, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Elements of Java Style

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Fails WP: GNG. This book has some passing mentions in university course syllabi and a handful of books and papers, but I struggled to find anything that would establish notability. HyperAccelerated (talk) 15:57, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature and Computing. Shellwood (talk) 16:46, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Most of the references included in this article only mention The Elements of Java Style in passing. One of the references listed did not even mention The Elements of Java Style, so I removed this information. Another url was no longer functioning, so I archived it, although this alone is not enough to save the article. Dobbyelf62 (talk) 17:01, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Here are some sources I found about the subject:
1. Kowalsky, Michelle (September–October 2000). "The Elements of Java style (Book Review)". Science Books & Films. Vol. 36, no. 5. p. 203. ISSN 0098-342X. EBSCOhost 518399332.
2. Less significant coverage:
  1. Abdallah, Mohammad M. A.; Al-Rifaee, Mustafa M. (June 2017). "Java Standards: A Comparative Study" (PDF). International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering. 6 (6). ISSN 2409-4285. Retrieved 2025-02-03 – via ResearchGate.
    The article notes: "On the other hands, the AmbySoft standards are more specified and detailed. The AmbySoft standards have guidelines for variables and parameters, classes, methods and packages. Moreover, they listed some advices for Java code reusability and testing [12]. These standards then published in a book called “The Elements of Java Style” [13]. This book provides a set of rules for Java practitioners to follow. While illustrating these rules with parallel examples of correct and incorrect usage, the book provides a collection of standards, conventions, and guidelines for writing solid Java code which will be easy to understand, maintain, and enhance."
  2. Ouchi, Monica Soto (2004-05-09). "Amazon wizard: Corvallis man flies his own plane to commute to work running on-line seller's technology operations". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 2025-02-03. Retrieved 2025-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
    The article notes: "He co-wrote "The Elements of Java Style," a book that mimics the presentation of the Strunk and White classic for writers, "The Elements of Style." He and his cohorts were tired of thumbing through an obtuse, 1,200-page manual for answers about the Java programming language."
  3. Geelan, Jeremy (2003-11-01). "The state of Web services, A.D. 2003: they're 'a tool for the times,' say the experts. (Web Services Edge 2003 West Show Report)". Web Services Journal. Vol. 3, no. 11. Gale. ISSN 1535-6906. Factiva WSJL000020041124dzb10000e.
    The article notes: "The visionary in question was Allan Vermeulen, coauthor of the codehead's classic The Elements of Java Style, and now CTO of the world's largest online retailer, Amazon.com."
  4. Che, Haoyang (March 2005). "Review of "The Elements of C++ Style by Trevor Misfeldt, Gregory Bumgardner, and Andrew Gray"; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, ©2004, 0-521-89308-9". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. Vol. 30, no. 2. p. 29. doi:10.1145/1050849.1050869.
    The article notes: "Similarly, in the field of computer languages, there have many books (The Elements of Java Style, The Elements of C++ Style, The Elements of UML Style) furnishing a set of rules for writing in a certain language like C++ or Java."
I was able to find only one source that provides significant coverage about the book (Kowalsky 2000). Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria requires significant coverage in two sources.
Cunard (talk) 09:21, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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