Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The God Tree (novel)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. per WP:CSD blatant hoax in regard to the claim to have been a Whitbread runner-up, and per WP:SNOW in regard to the book's non-notability. JohnCD (talk) 17:09, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

The God Tree (novel)

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Unreferenced article about a non-notable book by a non-notable author. I am unable to find any reliable sources. Claims to have won a minor award, but even that can't be verified. Fails WP:NBOOK. - MrX 13:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Delete The Whitbread Award (now the Costa Book Awards) is one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes - hardly a minor award. However this book was not actually nominated for it - The Guardian has the real shortlist. User:Mburdess (who shares a name with the alleged author of this book) added it to the list of nominees and created this page, but this is a blatant hoax. The book doesn't appear to exist, and the claim of significance is totally false. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:02, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete It's difficult to verify whether the book exists (I don't think so). --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 14:09, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as hoax, or at least A7 no indication of notability. Not only was this book not a finalist in the 2003 Whitbread awards (per list here, but I can't even verify that it exists. Not listed at Amazon, or at the BL. Only Google hits for book and author name together are to wiki. Mcewan (talk) 14:46, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete per following reasons:
 * It does not cite any sources.
 * I couldn't find any relevant google results.
 * The cover image appears to be fabricated, probably through photoshop (It would probably appear very different, and probably much better, if it was designed by a professional cover designer).
 * The author of the book is verifiably real, but, as far as Google and Amazon know, has not written any book entitled The God Tree.
 * The author of the article has apparently made no contributions other than edits to the above article, and an edit detailing the above book as being part of the shortlist of novel nominations for the 2003 Whitbread Awards.
 * Even if, as unlikely as it is, it is not a hoax, it is mostly spam and does not appear to be notable.
 * If I had encountered this article before this deltetion discussion, I probably would have tagged it for speedy deletion. The only reason that I am not tagging it for speedy deletion right now is because I am a relatively new user, and am not sure whether such an action would adhere to WP:DELETE. --Mathnerd 101 (talk &#124; contribs) 00:29, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete and snow close. I'd delete it myself but I think that I need more than four delete votes to really close this. Per the above arguments, there's nothing out there but this article to even show that this book exists. It doesn't help that this is sheer promotion by the original editor, but it isn't so blatantly obvious to where I could delete it via that sort of speedy. Hopefully my vote will give the last oomph for another admin to speedy close this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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