Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merchants of Deception

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. TigerShark 13:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merchants of Deception

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Non-notable e-Book; was tagged for db-spam but the author removed the tag. Thought it would be better to have the discussion here. (ESkog)^(Talk) 13:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

• I'm curious about what the criteria is for a book to be considered "notable." As for removing the tag, I have never used wikipedia before and am still learning the process. I read this book as part of my research for a book that I am writing. I was surprised that Eric Scheibeler was on Wikipedia, but his book was not. The book link is on his entry for Wikipedia, so I thought I would try to add to Wikipedia for the first time by making an entry for the book. It may be a disputable book, but so is something like the "loose change" conspiracy video about 911 and countless other entries on Wikipedia. Disputable does not mean disreputable. It doesn't really matter to me if you delete the entry, but I would just like to understand why so I don't waste my time in the future. What if I changed the entry to "A book written by Eric Scheibeler about Amway/Quixtar." I can't think of any other way to be more objective, although uninformative as well, about the subject. Tranquilize 17:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, not a notable (e-)book, and edits, links and sources all made by a WP:SPA who may have an agenda here. The Rambling Man 13:43, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Although I would be the last to defend the Amway/Quixtar industry, this is basically an attack book by a disgruntled former associate, heavily linkspammed all over the net. A lot of forum discussion, but I don't find any reviews from reliable sources. Fan-1967 14:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with the author's article. -- Strangelv 16:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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