Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragon's Fury

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 02:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon's Fury

Appears to be the subject of a vast astroturfing campaign. It was written in large part by the author, User:Jeff Head, and created by a user whose only contributions deal with it (User:Killa Dilla) -- just take a look at the history. It read like an advertisement before it was NPOV'd. I don't think it's notable enough to be here, though it's hard to tell because of all the self-promotion and astroturfing on Google. I don't know what the policy is when it comes to something so vigorously promoted by the author, but something tells me this is not notable, especially considering that neither the author nor his publisher have articles, nor do the so-called bestselling authors that wrote the foreword. If someone can prove that this is notable, fine, but it seems like marketing. Andre (talk) 04:27, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Interesting campaign of self-promotion. According to the author's website he is the "best selling" author of Dragons Fury. Yet the series ranks at 765,271 in books at Amazon[1]. It has numerous blog posts and reviews at sites of unknown provenance that read like adverts—there's an online review by none other than the author at some site called allreader[2] (popups). Appears to be heavy self-promotion. Searching Worldcat, no book in the series is in more than 3 libraries, which is very low [3]. The real kicker though is when you Google the publisher, Alpha Connections, and you find that that is the author's name for his web development service from his personal website. Not only does not meet WP:BK, but trespasses on multiple grounds listed there as indicia of non-notability.--Fuhghettaboutit 05:07, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No independent non-trivial third-party reviews. The writer is not himself notable. No non-trivial literary awards. Self-published, as noted. Fails WP:BK. Also, I point out that all his Amazon, B&N, and Chapters reviews are by "customers" who have never reviewed anything but Jeff Head books. Nice Astroturfing there. --Charlene.fic 15:43, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete glad to see people using WP:BK! But you have to add to it a very strong vanity concern. Pascal.Tesson 18:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Arbusto 21:31, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

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