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*::Oh really? Thanks for enlightening me. Well how about this: [[WP:INDISCRIMINATE|Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information]] and [[WP:BK#Academic and technical books|notablity of academic and technical books]]. I work in IT, and have dozens of various Wrox, O'Reilly, IDG, Que, etc., books, most of them are about as notable as this book, and they don't and shouldn't have articles written about them. These technical books have a pretty limited printing, are not widely distributed, and do not receive coverage or reviews in the media. In the past few years, even large Barnes and Noble bookstore have been reducing the number of tech books that they shelve. Just because you and I read them doesn't make them notable. --[[User:Rogerd|rogerd]] ([[User talk:Rogerd|talk]]) 04:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

*:::Uhm. Well, you did a great job of demolishing a couple arguments I never made, there. Could I introduce you to the [[WP:GNG|General Notability Guideline]], and the citations I've added to the article demonstrating that this topic meets it? And I don't even know what to do with "these are technical books, so they don't get coverage in the media, so they're not notable" when you have to be staring right at citations of the book's media coverage. [[WP:BK#Academic and technical books]] is trying to establish a basis for using things like academic citations for establishing notability for academic and technical books so that we don't wind up throwing out academically important works because of their lack of mainstream media coverage, not cause us ''to'' throw out books that ''have'' notability-establishing mainstream media coverage. [[User:Chaos5023|—chaos5023]] ([[User talk:Chaos5023|talk]]) 11:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

*::: The fact that "you and I read them" (in the figurative, not literal, sense) would seem like the very definition of notability to me. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 10:59, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

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