Talk:How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It

Notability? When I look I see essentially zero coverage of this book in reliable secondary sourcing. When I look all I see is the briefest mention in two obscure places, with no significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject as is required. It is also worth mentioning that the sole editor of this article is associated with the author of the book as evidenced by the active participation of the editor at the author's blog where the author describes this editor as being "my old friend" in context of his 'gleeful hours' pushing POV at Wikipedia. SaltyBoatr (talk) 21:38, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * If that is your standard for notability, then you'd better get busy and nominate several hundred other best-seling books for deletion. You have a lot of hard work to do.   Trasel (talk) 02:27, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I see the notation of the book being a quote "International Best Seller," but do we have a cite or cites to that effect? It would be good addition. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 00:14, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Cover pic
Just a note that a cover picture probably would help the article. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 16:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

National Geographic article ... ?
I'm going from memory here, but I believe there was a National Geographic article that referenced this work. I cannot, at the present, locate it, but it may be something to research. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 16:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Citing the Author's blog
I have removed most (if not all) of the citations to the author's blog... a primary source like this is not reliable for things like sale's figures or Amazon ranking. Such claims need reliable secondary sources. Blueboar (talk) 16:54, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Differences between US and UK text?
I am just curious what differences exist between the two editions. It might be worth a brief mention in the article Surv1v4l1st (Talk 20:16, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Quote From Book In The Trumpet
I gotta chime in on this: I own my own copy of that book and I checked. Here is the Reference Check for you guys: The version of this quote in the book (at the bottom of Page 27) and in The Trumpet magazine BOTH say "…exposed to the elements." But the original wording on the Rawls blog site says "…exposed in the elements." So those two match but the blog doesn't! So that is proof that the quote came from the book, not from the blog. So the reference is valid. Also, why else would they follow it with: "(How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It)." ??? That quote should go back in to the article. BobbieCharlton (talk) 19:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)