Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outsourcing to India

August 2005
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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 (talk) 01:32, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Outsourcing to India
This article is signed by the author of the book. Although not a blatant advertising pitch, the content is similar to a Amazon.com info page. The purpose of the entry is of course to boast recognition and sell the book. This article is representative of a worsening vanity problem. Now subjects that may lie in the periphery of inclusion are vanity works. None of us wants Wikipedia to become overtaken by self promoters, so hopefully, we can establish more strict standards for commercial products.

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lots of issues | leave me a message 13:53, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Marginal delete Self-promotion but not blatant, possibility of some original research. Book may be useful for a small group of people making a very restricted class of business decisions - that's not enclyclopedaic.  I think the onus is on the author to justify its notability.  Agree better definition of standards for commercial products is needed e.g. in an ideal world a notable book should only be proposed by someone other than its author.  In the real world though that's unenforecable.  Is the only workable criterion sales rank?

In an attempt to open discussion on the criteria I'm going to list the author's self-created page Mark Kobayashi-Hillary for deletion also. Dlyons493 14:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Customers who bought this book also bought Dlyons493 21:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia has no chance to cover current books correctly. Better nothing than collection of ads. Pavel Vozenilek 18:22, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pavel. Marskell 18:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable book. 80.255 20:01, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why notable? Amazon.com Sales Rank: #540,801 in Books as compared to
 * What's This India Business?: Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Global Services Revolution #144,324
 * Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives #169,644
 * The Outsourcing Revolution : Why It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right #126,112
 * The Black Book of Outsourcing : How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities #152,987
 * Google search for "Outsourcing to India" book produces 33,600 results. That suggests notability to me. 80.255 22:46, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * True, but that includes other books also - a search on Kobayashi-Hillary+"Outsourcing to India" only returns 762 hits. Do you know if there are any wiki guidelines or precedents on Google and Amazon as measures of notability ?


 * Delete, per Pavel. --GraemeL (talk) 00:04, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete'. No ads please. &asymp; jossi &asymp; 03:30, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete User is free to add his work to the references cited in the article Outsourcing. As it stands, this reads like a vanity/OR page.Dottore So 05:37, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, but delete the table of contents and useless stuff. &mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 01:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - This screams of an advertisement. I think that many books are notable and wikiworthy, but an article written by the author for a book with very little attention?  I think that Outsourcing to India is an important business phenomenon that warrants an article in Wikipedia, but the book of the title doesn't.  Come on, let's get rid of this and place an encyclopedic article about the phenomenon! - Hahnchen 23:58, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

'''Deleted: +6.5/-1.5 =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:58, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
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