Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/How to Be Rich, Nigga (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 delete. Sr13 01:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

How to Be Rich, Nigga
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Mostly procedural nomination. This is an expired prod but since it has (barely) survived AfD once, it should go through AfD again. As noted in his prod, little if anything has changed in the article since that Sept. 2005 debate. I should also note that there seems to be a complete absence of reliable sources about the author or about the books proclaimed success. All Google can find seems to com from prweb.com which is about as unreliable a source as one can imagine. Pascal.Tesson 03:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sales numbers at individual chains of stores don't make for very reliable information on just how notable a book is, and an ISBN doesn't constitute notability either. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 06:56, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete same reasons as I voted to delete last time, with the additional concern that it hasn't been fixed even after well more than a year. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  13:36, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pascal's summary of my PROD nomination. Yes, I should have brought it here, but it seemed like a no-brainer.  I voted keep last time pending verification of the sales claims, but despite my best efforts (I e-mailed his distributor and got no response) I could not verify them. Chick Bowen 20:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Even it had sold well that doesn't automatically make a book notable per WP:BOOK, but as not even sales can be verified there really is no basis to keep. A1octopus 22:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 10:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Browsing through the last debate, it seems that the book was self-published by a (presumably, since he doesn't have his own page) non-notable person, and only sold a handful of copies. The page has not changed much and the unsubstantiated claims of sales "success" (which is a relative term, of course) at one bookstore chain don't do much. Slic e NYC (Talk) 18:27, 23 June 2007 (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.