Talk:The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:51, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that Lawrence Watt-Evans' The Cyborg and the Sorcerers was his first work in the hard science fiction genre, but mixed in elements of fantasy? Source: https://schlock-value.com/2018/05/13/the-cyborg-and-the-sorcerers/

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• Comment: back from a hiatus, hope this one works...

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 14:05, 1 September 2021 (UTC).

• I am sorry, but this article is not ready for DYK and possibly not even for Wikipedia. If we discard plot summary, which is 90% of the article, the remaining prose falls under 250. But even if we count the prose, this just looks bad - a single sentence of reception, sourced to what seems like a blog, so the article fails WP:N. I tagged it with {{notability}}, and if it does not improve soon I'll take it to AfD (I already did a quick WP:BEFORE and I have major concerns that this work can be saved, as I am not seeing any reliable reception of it). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:37, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Delete the article. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:17, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Maury Markowitz, I don't want to disparage your work. We can move it to your userspace per WP:DRAFTIFY, and if/when you find more sources you can submit it for review, either to me directly, or to the WP:AFC process. How does that sound? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:58, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:10, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz: ? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:41, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Should be good to go now. Maury Markowitz (talk) 10:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

@Piotrus: do you plan on returning to this nom? Your objections have been addressed. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:27, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Maury Markowitz Although Schlock Value is a blog, the two other reviews I presume are from the newspapers, which meets my interpretation of minimum required for GNG. Thank you and we are GTG. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

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