Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recovery from Cults

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 05:47, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Recovery from Cults

Not a notable book. As an indication, this book has only three reviews by customers on Amazon USA. Andries 17:15, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep all non-vanity-press books, and any moderately successful vanity press books too. Kappa 22:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete the mind boggles at regarding all such books as inherently notable. PatGallacher 00:18, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)

• • I didn't say anything about notability. Kappa 01:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • If that is Kappa's argument, that this is not a test of notability, I think this confirms the case for deletion. PatGallacher 22:26, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
      • What is the purpose of a 'notability' criterion? Kappa 00:15, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
        • I think the concept of notability is basic to the Wikipedia project. See the FAQ and some other places on Wikipedia. This confirms my support for deletion. PatGallacher 07:48, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)
          • Well the Wikipedia:FAQ doesn't mention it, and WP is quite big so I'm not going to look through the whole thing for evidence that it's "basic to the wikipedia project". I know that some people think that, but if no explanation is provided, I can't challenge that assertion. Kappa 09:11, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this just passes the notability test for me. Expand. Megan1967 00:30, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • May I ask what constitutes your test? The author and publisher are redlinks is a redlink (it does have what I believe is a prominent publisher, W. W. Norton), and there is no assertion that the book has been a commercial or critical success (or failure), or that it is at all controversial or significant. It'd be nice to see a reason to keep this, other than that it was published. Thanks, -Willmcw 00:42, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
    • Amazon sales rank under 250,000. Megan1967 07:25, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. As near as anyone can figure, a book with an Amazon sales rank around 200,000 is selling ~2 copies per week from Amazon. If it were a new book, this would be dismal, but for a book that is 10 years old, it's not that bad. This book appears to possess at least minimal notability. Shimmin 00:49, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

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