Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gratitude and the Good Life: Toward a Psychology of Appreciation


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The result was speedy delete as a hoax. I've opened up a new SPI case and I'll block the article creators. I've also protected the page to prevent further attempts to create an article about the hoax book. If someone wants to create a book about Watkins's book and can create an article that establishes notability, I'll remove the page protections. I've also salted the page for "author" since that's related to the sockpuppetry case. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:13, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Gratitude and the Good Life: Toward a Psychology of Appreciation

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Not enough coverage in independent, reliable sources to verify or sustian article. Fails Wikipedia's General Notability Guidelines and WP:NBOOK. Note: This is not the book Gratitude and the Good Life: Toward a Psychology of Appreciation by  Philip C. Watkins which is a textbook published by Springer in 2014 and is not about evolution. This article was CSD in December as well [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&page=Gratitude_and_the_Good_Life%3A_Toward_a_Psychology_of_Appreciation]. J bh Talk  15:51, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  J bh  Talk  15:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 16:03, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete The book is real but doesn't seem to meet NBOOK or any other relevant notability guideline. Note that article about author was speedy deleted last month as a hoax. Everymorning (talk) 16:07, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Good find. That book is "funny" (Not ha ha funny either) . It looks like they took the title from the Springer book and came up with the author by copy/past from Cleveland P. Hickman Jr. (Who seems to be a legitimate author [//www.goodreads.com/author/list/4765890.Cleveland_P_Hickman_Jr_] but not of a book of this title.) but got the last name, first name switched about and came up with Hickman Jr. Cleveland P.. I think hoax may be a kind word for it. J bh  Talk  16:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment. This is a hoax. I took a look around and found the book at Amazon, however a search using some of the sentences shows that it's clearly the Philip C. Watkins book lifted wholesale. I'll alert Springer to this since this is clear theft. The "author" tries to get away with it by citing Watkins, but the book's info gives off the impression that the author is someone else. Now what firmly pegs this as a hoax is the name "Javad Ramezani" on Amazon. This sounded familiar and sure enough, it's associated with User:جواد رمضانی شوراب, who has created multiple sockpuppets. One of his hallmarks is trying to copy stuff from other places and pass it off as Ramezani's work. In this case they decided to try to get around this by stealing someone's scientific work. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:04, 4 February 2016 (UTC)


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