Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Emerging Leader: Eight Lessons for Life in Leadership


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 06:19, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

The Emerging Leader: Eight Lessons for Life in Leadership

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Article about a non-notable book published by vanity publisher Tate Publishing & Enterprises. Fails WP:BKCRIT. - MrX 21:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


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 * Delete - The three references are all Amazon websites. Amazon is selling the book.  Could be biased?  The article does helpfully suggest that the book is "notably" endorsed, but notability cannot be inherited.--Rpclod (talk) 03:58, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's just nothing out there to show that this book is ultimately notable enough for its own article. As far as the endorsements go, those are almost never in any format that can be used to show notability for a few reasons, mostly stemming from the fact that the people endorsing the book are friends (or in some cases, close co-workers) of the author and/or the endorsements are just 1-2 sentence blurbs that are fairly routine in the literary world. The book doesn't seem to have achieved any actual press in reliable sources and although the author's article had claimed that the book was a bestseller on Amazon, selling numbers don't really give notability- they just make it more likely something will get coverage. Not only that, but there have been accounts of people deliberately swaying sales numbers on Amazon, which is part of the reason nobody can really use sales numbers as a source of notability regardless of where the bestselling status is posted (NYTBL, USA Today, etc). Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG WP:RS WP:CREATIVE. --Jersey92 (talk) 04:59, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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