Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, which defaults to KEEP Paul August ☎ 05:05, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith

I am at a loss with what to do with these kind of articles. Nobody with an academic background in archaeology has read these books and so there are no peer-reviewed journal articles stating why this man is wrong. I have looked. This is because no archaeologists take the man seriously. NPOVing this necessitates having a deeper knowledge of the subject than any current wikipedian I have encountered. Please read this article and suggest what to do. adamsan 23:10, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as copyvio of the Official Website, perhaps? TheMadBaron 11:01, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Made a couple of changes to try to add some NPOV-ness. The book's a bestseller (sadly) and an entry on it should be preserved - keep. Vizjim 13:07, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but needs a bit more work - mostly layout, not me this time, though. Alf ^melmac 13:27, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable book. Vizjim, where did you get the info that this book is a bestseller? I cannot corroborate that. From what I see it is around 1,000,000th rank on Amazon (US) and 14,207 on Amazon (UK). I'd let poorly researched "non-fiction" like this stand though if someone can cite this book as a bestseller.--Isotope23 18:13, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Info's from memory. I've now researched it and (thank your space-faring deity of choice!) this particular book didn't top the charts in the way some of Hancock's earlier ones did. Must've confused one with t'other. However, non-notability is not necessarily a condition of deletion, and the author is undoubtedly significant.Vizjim 10:22, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

• Weak keep but work on it. — Phil Welch 22:23, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable archaeology book. / Peter ^Isotalo 00:47, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

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