Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hard Work: Success Made Easy (second nomination)


 * 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 easy delete. -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ / ?!  07:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hard Work: Success Made Easy

 * plus Michael Crews Development the book's author.

Nonnotable self-published self-help book. Previous AFD doesn't really govern because the article was previously speedied as empty. It has more content now, but I don' t think it helps. NawlinWiki 02:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Spam. -- RHaworth 03:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as vanity. Introduce the author to the concept of oxymoron. - Smerdis of Tlön 04:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I call spam, but that alone isn't criteria for speedy - and per the nom, it's already been speedied out before, so here it is. Delete per nom.  --Dennisthe2 05:19, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Nuke the articles from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. And never do business with Michael Crews Development. Apparently his "Success Made Easy" book includes a chapter on freeloading off of somebody else's service. VoiceOfReason 07:00, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Deletion made easy because this is vanispamcruftisement. MER-C 10:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Blatant WP:VSCA. -- Fan-1967 14:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete being unashamed WP:VSCA. NeoChaosX [ talk | contribs ] 17:35, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm about to apply my personal test. I don't know yet how it will come out. If this book has an Amazon sales rank number ranking it higher than 200,000 I'll vote to keep. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:07, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Amazon advanced book search on title = "Hard Work: Success Made Easy" and author = "Michael Crews" yields "No results match your search in Books." To those familiar with Amazon search, it is a very, very loose search and is much more likely to yield false positives than to fail to find a real book. This almost certainly means that the book has no ISBN number. ISBN numbers cost about $250 for a block of ten directly from Bowker (and can be bought in smaller numbers from Lulu, etc.) This virtually certifies that this is a self-published or "vanity press" book (except that these days most self-publishers and vanity presses obtain ISBN numbers and do get Amazon listings). Will reconsider vote if someone provides the book's ISBN number and shows that the book can, in fact, be located on Amazon and does have a sales rank above 200,000. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment on comment: Published by "SDG Press". Probably not this one, this one. With its ultra-informative website. I suspect the latter may find itself sued by the former at some point. VoiceOfReason 06:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Doesn't the book title remind folks of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying?" Except, of course, that that title was a joke. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment on comment -- have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? I can't help but picture Michael Crews as Richard Hoover, desperately hawking his nine steps to success. VoiceOfReason 06:04, 29 September 2006 (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.