art of war thanks for being so understanding i hope you decide to stick around regarding the art of war disambiguation there is already a link to sun tzu's book which el norte press has simply issued in a new edition wp disambig covers the sorts of things that are appropriate for disambiguation pages since we wouldn't have a whole article on a single edition of a book we wouldn't mention it on the disambiguation page but please feel free to contribute to wikipedia in other ways and ironic as it might sound now ignore all rules if you do something wrong someone else will come along and fix it ' talkcontribs ah i had missed that you had said mao's art of war not sun tzu's still mao never wrote a book called the art of war the el norte press edition is a compilation of four separate treatises they would be notable individually but none would be linked to the art of war disambiguation page since none of them shares that title nor could the el norte edition be advertised on any of the articles devoted to one of those four treatises e g on protracted war ' talkcontribs there is a difference between editions that on their own satisfy the requirements of wp n and the insertion of information about a specific edition into articles about a book a more specific notability guideline is available at wp nb since the art of war disambiguation is not a heavily edited page leaving this to another editor to correct does not seem likely to resolve this problem if you like you can request a third opinion which would bring others into the discussion ' talkcontribs thanks for your note while anything written by mao zedong would count as notable a collection of his writings assembled under a title that he never chose would not be it is for this reason that i am loathe to include the art of war as one of mao's writings or to put it on the disambiguation page one thing that caught my eye was your claim that this work is referenced in scholarly papers that would be a sign of notability did mao ever publish these works together as unit under the title the art of war who has discussed the works by this title ' talkcontribs thank you again for your comments the fact that this edition appears in the footnote of an unpublished paper does not make it notable blogs are not reliable sources either you mention that this book is used at west point i would correct you to say that this edition has been ordered by the west point bookstore the book in question does not exist except as a creation of el norte press you mention your expertise expert editors addresses this issue so we don't have to throw our credentials on the table if you wish to pursue this further the link for a third opinion is above '''''' talkcontribs art of war by mao zedong dispute summary of third opinion any works attributed by mao zedong mao tse tung not already indexed specifically should be considered notable and deserving of a reference line as long as they are verified the editor asking for the inclusion has made an argument for notability the art of war community should decide on any future postings regarding this book i have re installed the reference to the art of war by mao zedong mao tse tung on the art of war disambiguation page this is the only dispute in queue a