Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less


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The result was redirect to Greg McKeown (author).  Sandstein  18:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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I don't believe this book meets WP:NBOOK. The article, even after a bit of editing, rings of advertising. No reviews are provided towards notability, and I'm not having too much luck finding substantial coverage in recognized outlets. Searching is a bit tedious as I'm tripping over interviews and placement pieces for the authors PR campaign. (Note that this article was edited by the same three or four authors (in the same order?!) that the author's page was. Further, I'm nominating that page for deletion, too.)

The article offers the claim that the book was #4 on an Amazon.com list of picks for 2014, which I was able to reference. However, Amazon's clear goal is selling books -- not editorial review or academic analysis and therefore doesn't confer notability. The article further claims the book was "a NYT and WSJ best seller". It hit #7 on the specialized NYT "Advice & Misc." list for the week of May 4, 2014. It is not on the May 11 or the April 27 lists. Mikeblas (talk) 01:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. Bestseller lists can give notability now, but the general consensus was that only the main lists (fiction, non-fiction) would give notability. Places like Amazon would not count towards notability at all because it's a merchant site and extremely difficult to verify. I'm seeing some light coverage, but I think that I'll probably just endorse a redirect to the author's article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:39, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Greg McKeown. There are a handful of reviews, but the coverage here is so light that I think that we could probably just sum this up in the author's article, which admittedly needs to be completely rewritten, so this will just be one more thing to throw on to the pile of things that needs to be done with the article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect to Greg McKeown (author), per . -Zanhe (talk) 19:16, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:10, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Greg McKeown. Not enough notability for a stand-alone article.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:09, 10 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.