Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time (book)


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The result was Redirect to Peter A. Olsson. Cúchullain t/ c 03:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time (book)

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This is a book published by a vanity press, Publish America. The author may be notable, but since that claim to notability rests in part on this book, while the notability of this book rests entirely on the author, what we have is a very small walled garden. Most of this article is either original research or about the author. Guy (Help!) 11:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Smee 15:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
 * Delete - minimal content. Beyond telling us some things about the author, the article does no more than assert the existence of the book it's supposed to be about. BTLizard 11:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect into Peter A. Olsson - I've already copied one missing reference (the first, a scholarly journal review) there and there is indeed not much other content here.--Tikiwont 12:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - For reasons stated below:
 * 1) Fits criterion (4), (5), also (1) with sources cited, and will be expanded upon, of Notability (books).
 * 2) Nothing in the article is original research, virtually every single bit of information is backed up by citations.
 * 3) Analyzed in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.
 * 4) Featured in 2006 on The History Channel documentary Cults: Dangerous Devotion.
 * 5) Plenary speech at the annual meeting of The American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians, in 2006.
 * 6) Required reading at King's College, Pennsylvania, course on "American Cults".
 * More listed in article mainspace. (11) citations so far, will be expanded upon.  Smee 15:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
 * Incidentally, 2 interesting 5-star reviews by medical doctors on Amazon.com
 * 1) "Compelling and Provocative Introduction to Cults", Shawn Shea, M.D., Psychiatry, August 3, 2005, New Hampshire
 * 2) "An important study in a time of world-wide terror", David J. Turell, M.D., Internal Medicine, August 1, 2005, Texas
 * Not a secondary source, but interesting nonetheless. Two medical doctors, two different specialties, two disparate locations in the United States.  Thank you for your time.
 * comment these two links to doctors above don't link to any kind of review but to a list of Creationists and what appears to be a single-member "Institute", respectively. -  Irides centi   (talk to me!)  18:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * reply - I know, it was just incidental info, the medical doctors had written their reviews on Amazon.com. Smee 19:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
 * That such "reviews" are given as among the best that could be found for the book implies a certain lack of notability and POV DGG 01:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * They are not "among the best that could be found" - I simply thought that they were interesting. Smee 04:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC).


 * Redirect as per Tikiwont; this is just the author's biography and a one line "oh and he's written a self-published book". -  Irides centi   (talk to me!)  18:14, 27 March 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.