User talk:Adrianmaile

Secret Habits of Successful Bastards
A tag has been placed on Secret Habits of Successful Bastards, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Secret Habits of Successful Bastards and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JNW (talk) 04:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I copied the structure of Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. Why is that not blatant advertising but my contribution is? I am merely trying to register visibility of the details of a published and best-selling book.

Verifiability and neutrality
A good suggestion is to read WP:V as to guidelines for writing a well-sourced article, one that will be supported by neutral sources, i.e. book and magazine articles or reviews, or industry publications attesting to the book's trade success. At issue also is your user name, which suggests the possibility that you are the author of the book; WP:COI strongly discourages writing about one's self. It is always preferable to have a disinterested party write the article. I hope this answers some of your questions. Cheers, JNW (talk) 06:02, 17 August 2008 (UTC)