Talk:Below the Root (novel)

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Proposed Deletion

Is it really necessary to delete this article? Of course, the criticism that it is only a plot summary at this point and doesn't have any reliable sources is completely valid. But I don't think that actually calls the notability into question, seeing as this is a published work by a recognized author. Surely there are reliable sources about this book somewhere, but they will be in printed newspapers from the time it was published, and not just a Google search away. Maybe this article should really be merged into the main trilogy article, with the summary further boiled down into one or two paragraphs. That would preserve the history and open up the possibility for reinstating the article with reliable sources in the future. And I suppose whatever is done with this article should also be applied to the other two in the trilogy. Fnordware (talk) 16:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]