Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Self Publishing in India


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The result was delete. Deor (talk) 13:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Self Publishing in India

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There's nothing specific about self-publishing in India that cannot be discussed in the self publishing article. As it stands, this article is just a collection of mostly non-notable self-publishing companies and their websites (and therefore also rather promotional). Randykitty (talk) 15:22, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. "Self-Publishing in India" is the most often looked out thing in Google by new Indian authors, So the article must be included. Additionally Publishing sector of India is now having a great percentage of self-published books and works, so the article covering these aspects must be made available on Wikipedia. The companies mentioned in the article are notable, as the press articles and their involvement in national book fairs are reported, within the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pa2ankurtiwari (talk • contribs) — Preceding undated comment added 16:47, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTDIR applies to this article which says little of actual relevance about the supposed topic and consists primarily of a list of non-notable companies operating in the field.  I also note that the author's attempt to move the list to project namespace apparently in order to circumvent the AfD by claiming that the list is not an article but a "wikipedia project" and that the AfD process therefore does not apply to it makes it rather hard to assume good faith. JulesH (talk) 20:21, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDIR as an almost contextless slew of links. The topic of the list is of poorly-defined scope and thus of little encyclopedic value. (As an aside, the creator of the article has also been blocked for abusing multiple accounts.) -- Kinu  t/c 20:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as well as NOTDIR already mentioned this a WP:LINKFARM. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:53, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * FWIW Pa2ankurtiwari has been blocked for abusing multiple accounts. Since we do not, at this time, know who the original editor is I don't know if it can be speedy deleted or not. If it can and somebody want to add the tag that would be great. If not we can let this run its course. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 21:19, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Since the (almost obvious) sockpuppetry wasn't caught until later, and because the creator of this article is the suspected master account (created prior to the one known suspected sock), I think a G5 probably wouldn't be appropriate. No reason not to let this run its course, unless of course evidence arises to the contrary and/or a WP:SNOW situation arises later in the discussion. -- Kinu  t/c 03:36, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete as per nomination and WP:NOTDIR. ''' C ute st Penguin (Talk) 12:40, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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