Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brain Candy (book)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was  speedy delete (on multiple grounds) with thanks to admin Diannaa (non-admin closure).  St ★ lwart 1 1 1 01:42, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Brain Candy (book)

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Book that doesn't indicate any notabilty.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

I added some more sources including the author's web page. Kleach (talk) 20:28, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * None of those links are usable. The author's site is a WP:PRIMARY source, meaning that it cannot show notability in any way. It can back up small details and in some instances could potentially help point in the direction of actual independent and reliable sources, but it cannot show notability. The same thing goes for the Google Books link- that's a link to the book itself, so it's primary. It does show that the book exists, but existing is not notability. (WP:ITEXISTS) Other than that you have a merchant site (Amazon), which is considered to be wholly inappropriate to add to Wikipedia in general because the main purpose of a merchant site is to sell you the product. Even if there are book reviews, there are instances of merchant sites manipulating reviews to cherry pick positive quotes- I've seen it happen. I also noted that you placed material taken directly from the Amazon page on the article. Please be aware that this is a copyright violation and is not permissible on Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:37, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 21:06, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment the existence of this article is highly related to a move request, see talk:Brain Candy for that discussion -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 22:15, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails notability. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:16, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * I can't find any reliable reviews via a web search. I'm not the best at finding sources for books, so there may be some in "the normal places" so I'll refrain from !voting.  Hobit (talk) 19:16, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Hobit, you didn't miss anything- there are no sources out there for this work other than a Publisher's Weekly review. That's not nearly enough to assert notability and since the page is almost entirely a copyright violation and extremely promotional, I've tagged it as a speedy deletion accordingly. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


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