Talk:Alexander B. Rossino

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Notability[edit]

I tagged the page for notability as the subject doesn't appear to meet NPROF nor GNG. Merits for NAUTHOR seem to be lacking - he seems to have authored a single well known title - Hitler strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, ideology, and atrocity (around 165 citations in scholars, seems to have some reviews) - which may be notable (per NBOOK), but that doesn't make the bio notable (though it could be re-purposed to the book). Icewhiz (talk) 12:31, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the tag. The book is notable, and if this were taken to AfD that would be a keep, perhaps with conversion into an article about the book. Either way, the material would be kept. If I were starting a page on the subject, I would probably do a book article. But since there's no separate article on the book, this one on the author makes sense. --K.e.coffman (talk) 00:43, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your line of thinking which is why I did not AfD it. However should this he moved to the book title, and rearranged so that it is on the book ?03:05, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Either way is fine. I would keep it as a BLP; it's slightly more convenient for Wikipedia purposes when Rossino is used as a source. --K.e.coffman (talk) 03:11, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

K.e.coffman, we should move this to the book title. Rossino is a "Federal IT market analyst". He says he got out of history in 2003, and now he writes novels. See interview. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:30, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The book article already exists. I'll probably redirect this. SarahSV ^(talk) 02:54, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@SlimVirgin: Sure, this makes sense; no need for both articles & the book is more notable than the author. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:51, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section:

Cite templates will be used where possible.
I prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, rather than "title case".
Links to potentially unreliable digitised copies and to booksellers may be removed.

This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 11:00, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sunwin1960 Passing comment that I don't think we usually list articles in the bibliography, only books. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:00, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]