Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Discovering the Language of Jesus: Hebrew or Aramaic
Listed for speedy delete, with a reason of "Vanity review of book, it's more an essay than an encyclopedia article. Plus it seems to be written by the author of the book." This is not IMO a reason for a speedy under WP:CSD, but it is a very good readon for an AFD. Delete or else cite for notability and clean up and NPOV. DES (talk) 07:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- Delete I'm the one who nominated it for speedy. The article is written by the author of the book. It is a biased review of his own book, so probably counts as Original Research.TheRingess 08:02, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- Delete - actually it reads like a copyvio. I can find a few paragraphs of it in "reviews" on amazon, but I can't find the rest. Jamie (talk/contribs) 08:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- very weak delete - it's a vanity review, but that isn't a reason to delete, but to clean up and de-POV. We could simply make this into a valid stub. Amazon verifies that the book exists, so, in the end, this is a question of whether this book is notable enough to justify an article. An Amazon rating of 600,000 isn't good - but isn't pathetic either for a technical book (my own is at 2.7 million). What pushes it towards delete for me is that google gives it nothing beyond Amazon - which means university libraries aren't listing it (my book scores several dozen on this front). However, this book was only published in August 2005 - so perhaps there is time yet. We really could do with working out a WP:BOOKS policy. --Doc ask? 14:31, 23 December 2005 (UTC)