Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James D. Zirin
hi {{u|Chetsford}}, have you been involved with many afds involving an author as you are incorrect when you state "Book reviews don't establish the type of deep biographical information necessary for a BLP." and "Book reviews (can) establish the notability of books, not authors (see: WP:BKCRIT)."  According to  "3.The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work an author's body of work are their books. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series) or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." so with Zirin, https://www.worldcat.org/title/mother-court-tales-of-cases-that-mattered-in-americas-greatest-trial-court/oclc/964334255&referer=brief_results ''Mother Court'' is held by around 290 libraries and https://www.worldcat.org/title/supremely-partisan-how-raw-politics-tips-the-scales-in-the-united-states-supreme-court/oclc/971481267&referer=brief_results ''Supremely Partisan'' 370 libraries, that could be deemed as "well-known" for these kinds of books, but what about reviews? well, ''Supremely Partisan'' (SP) has  a ''Kirkus Reviews|Kirkus'' https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-d-zirin/supremely-partisan/ starred review, you state "The claim that one of his books has received a Kirkus Star is unremarkable; Kirkus Reviews is a (partial) pay-for-play reviewer and 10% of their reviews receive a Kirkus Star. It's not the Nobel Prize or the Booker Award." is misleading as although this may be the case here (and with other of their recent reviews), as a book review magazine that is over 80 years old it is not necessarily true about all their reviews (but i digress:)). ''SP'' has also been reviewed in ''The Times'' https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-supremely-partisan-how-raw-politics-tips-the-scales-in-the-united-states-supreme-court-by-james-d-zirin-b9ql3gbc2 here and ''The Spectator'' ''https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/how-impartial-is-the-us-judiciary/ here'' ''Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries'' (''Choice'') https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1649186082 here, ''The East Hampton Star'' http://easthamptonstar.com/Books/20161103/Politicized-and-Polarized here (may be deemed "too local"?),  and ''ABA Journal'' http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/books_polarized_judiciary_politics here, so meets ; with ''Mother Court'' it has been reviewed by ''Choice'', ''ForeWord Magazine Reviews'', ''Library Journal'' http://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=3 here, ''The Providence Journal'' http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20141019/Entertainment/310199944 here (another local?:)), ''The Law Society Gazette'' https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/reviews/book-review-the-mother-court-tales-of-cases-that-mattered-in-americas-greatest-trial-court/5044088.article here, ''The Times'' https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-mother-court-by-james-d-zirin-2bzs3dph3zn here, ''The New York Review of Books'' http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/06/19/southern-district-court/ here, ''New York Law Journal'' https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/almID/1202663325846/the-mother-court-tales-of-cases-that-mattered-in-americas-greatest-trial-court/?back=law here, ''Quest (lifestyle magazine)'' https://www.questmag.com/blog/the-mother-court/ here, ''Law Society of Scotland|The Journal: of the Law Society of Scotland'' http://www.journalonline.co.uk/Magazine/59-9/1014422.aspx here, and ''The Economist'' https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21605877-paean-oldest-tribunal-united-states-courtly-love here, it too meets nbook, so Zirrin has authored two books that are well known and have received multiple reviews meaning that he meets  and so is a '''Keep''' from me
— User:Coolabahapple, 14:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
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