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*:::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)
*::::When I went to Amazon.com to look up this book, I searched under books for "Perl programming". I got 764 results (just books) and sorted by "bestselling". This title was '''number 188'''. Maybe we should write articles about numbers 1 thru 187. There was another book with the exact same title with a different publisher and author listed at number 107. This is an obscure book on a very specialized topic with a rather limited audience. That was my point about "you and I read them". IT professionals, especially ones who write Perl code, is a pretty limited subset of the population. --[[User:Rogerd|rogerd]] ([[User talk:Rogerd|talk]]) 14:58, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
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