Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lost Hills Books (2nd nomination)

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The result was merge to Bruce Henricksen. Sufficient argument has been made to justify merging content here, rather than outright deletion. I’ll redirect the article now accordingly, any merging can be done from the article history, giving proper attribution where appropriate. (non-admin closure) Steven Crossin ^{Help resolve disputes!} 01:16, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lost Hills Books

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An extremely minor, short lived publishing house. It seems to have only published two books, both of which were either written or compiled by the founder of the company. By all accounts, this very well may have been just a one-person show, as a venue to publish his own work. All three of the sources currently in the article are defunct, but none seem to have been valid reliable sources even at the time - one is just brief local coverage, one appears to be a book review and not on the company itself, and the third was a blog. I have been unable to find any additional sources that discuss the company in any meaningful way. I had initially been planning to just redirect the article to Bruce Henricksen, the company's founder (and seemingly sole contributor), however the utter lack of notability for the company, and the dubious assertion of notability of the target article, made me bring it to AFD instead. Rorshacma (talk) 21:01, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:47, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:47, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:47, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, LHBs published more than two books - ie. From the Other World, After the Floods, Estuary, and Staying Blue, checking these with WorldCat, they are little known with all but 1 held by under 10 libraries (and it, From the Other World in under 20 libraries), a quick goog search hasn't brought up anything, so not looking good. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The nominator's assessment appears to be right, for the reasons stated by Cool. Cosmic Sans (talk) 15:14, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Just Chilling (talk) 21:05, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I am unable to locate any references that meet the criteria for establishing notability, topic therefore fails gng and WP:NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 18:10, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Bruce Henricksen (where I have added some sources). This small press certainly published books by multiple writers, Poetry: "Tumbled Dry" by Charmaine Donovan, published by Lost Hills Books won a prize. (Book Awards announced at UMD; McClatchy - Tribune Business News; Washington [Washington]18 May 2012.) Also here [1]. I added 2 WP:RS about the publishing company to this page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:17, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 22:31, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Bruce Henricksen, which will add two more sources to that article, I think (plus more found by E.M.Gregory here). Then create a redirect from "Lost Hills Books" to Bruce Henricksen. It looks like Bruce Henricksen has possible notability (as author or editor or publisher or a combination), and that can be tested in a separate AfD anyway. RebeccaGreen (talk) 09:41, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.