Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/My Mother is a Tractor


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The result was Delete -- JForget  23:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

My Mother is a Tractor

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Completely non-notable vanity-press book. The author paid for publication through the notorious Canadian vanity press, Trafford. Google kicks up only blogs, author's own website, and wikimirrors. Utterly fails WP:BK. And this is also very disturbing: Someone with an Australian ISP has been going around adding wikilinks about this book to a weirdly wide variety of articles:. The book's author lives in Australia. Hmm. Now someone will have to volunteer to go through all of those articles and remove his awful spam. I'm going to start on it now. Qworty (talk) 21:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Author notes: I was directed to this page for comment. If you choose to delete, fine. I know I cannot stand in the way of a tidal wave of wiki opinion but just wanted to add some notes. Given the last point I have therefore I saved a copy now as a last hurrah, expecting the worst. Good evening ladies/gents and good luck. Comment added by Nklar (talk • contribs) 15:46, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, no sources.  Renee (talk) 21:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Paper45tee (talk) 21:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.   —Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 21:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity-press book from a non-notable author. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  22:10, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Not from the folks who brought you My Mother the Car Mandsford (talk) 22:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete although the title gave me some laughs, there's zero evidence of notability TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 22:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing to assert the notability of the book; while it doesn't bother me that it's published via a vanity press, it does bother me that there's nothing written about it outside of blogs and the author's own website.  Celarnor Talk to me  23:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 23:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Herostratus (talk) 05:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:N in every way imaginable. ArcAngel (talk) 13:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm originally from Australia but have not lived there for 8 years, hence those edits are the work of whoever - but not me. Upon checking Qworty's link I see they were added on June 6, 2006 - one of the busiest weeks of my year (exam week in Shanghai).
 * It may be self-published but, if you follow the Amazon sales, it's usually only outsold by "Learning to Bow" in the pantheon of 'JET' books.
 * Notability does not seem to matter much to Indiana University and Dokkyo University who utilise it as a standard text in courses WP:BK - Point 4
 * It's archived by both the National Diet Libary (Japan) and Library and Archives (Canada) WP:BK
 * This book has been independently reviewed by Japan Visitor, The Crazy Japan Times, Rocky Mountain JETAA and Rough Guide Japan WP:BK - Point 1
 * As for personal non-nobility that's not in question here, and neither would I ever assert it - although some have alluded to it. FYI I have had other work published in major media such as The Japan Times, Shanghai Daily, Fukuoka-Now, Asia! and Voyage.
 * Lastly if anyone have ever written a book one would realise the path of 'vanity press' is much easier one to tread than the continual slog of agents and publishing houses. Qworty obviously doesn't like POD/"Vanity Press' Talk:Trafford_Publishing and has deleted all other references without waiting for judgement here, so one must presume deletion a fait accompli
 * Comment Nklar has posted this commentary to a number of us !voters here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. I think we get his point TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 17:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You mean, there has been s p a m m i n g ???  Somehow I find that hard to believe... Qworty (talk) 17:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The funny thing? I've read his book and it is a good one about the teaching life in Japan, however it's just not notable. If we weren't being spammed, I'd probably quite like a conversation with the author TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 18:08, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like we can converse with him on nine different pages. It's considerate of him to make it so easy. Qworty (talk) 18:27, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Got your message Qworty and apologies to all above - I'm not really familiar with how wiki works. I saw entries on people's pages and presumed that's how it's done. The curse of a newbieNklar (talk) 22:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


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