Deletion of The Rise of the Meritocracy

Comment: clearly meets |#3 with the sources listed above. &mdash
Stance: keep
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Comment: If our article and https://www.etymonline.com/word/meritocracy this are accurate that this book is the source of the common English word "meritocracy", then it is almost certainly notable. Routledge also https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Meritocracy-Classics-Organization-Management/dp/1560007044 apparently calls it a "classic". The article does need serious work, though, as the authors do not seem to be clear on whether it is a book or an "essay" (a word almost never used to describe book-length works). The nom could also be forgiven for having thought, at the time of nomination, that the article was a |coatrack discussing the |etymology of the word "meritocracy", attributing the coining of the word to Young, but doing so based on a primary source, which was definitely inappropriate. (Thanks due to
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Comment: Young’s book is described as "a far-reaching, much reprinted satire" in The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/meritocracy-rules-ok-meritocracys-just-not-fair-1595088.html, and as a "1958 bestseller" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/meritocracy-inequality-theresa-may-donald-trump and a "classic" https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/feb/14/features11.g21, both in The Guardian. Note also that its current edition appears in a ''Classics in Organization and Management Series''.  It can be found being discussed in an article by Daniel Bell ( https://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/on-meritocracy-and-equality “National Affairs”, 1972), being discussed in a 2015 New Statesman article https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/meritocracy-myth-what-ever-happened-old-dream-classless-society, and serving as a discussion point for a (paywalled) 2006 article in The Economist: "Young's book was an opening shot in a successful war" https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/10/05/meritocracy-and-its-discontents. Also in another Economist article this year https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/02/10/the-merits-of-revisiting-michael-young but the paywall limit prevented my access to that. Overall I would say  is met
Stance: keep
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