Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/My Life with a Soul

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:48, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My Life with a Soul

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I came across this and noticed that the article was completely filled with various non-usable sources such as facebook, merchant sites, and review sites that anyone can contribute to. I've removed the sources that were blatantly non-usable and you can see the original version here. I did a search and was ultimately unable to find any coverage to show that this book passes WP:NBOOK. This is pretty much your typical non-notable novel. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:53, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:54, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:54, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Give me a week, please. I will give you reliable sources according to Wikipedia article WP:NBOOK. I request you not to delete the article and give me some time. And, I also want some suggestion for the sources.Tokyogirl79, just tell me one thing please. Is anyone can contribute to sites like flipkart.com, homeshop18.com, my publisher's website:www.pigeonbooks.in and www.isfdb.org. Author of book "My Life with a Soul" (talk) 13:16, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... a good place to start would be the newspapers of India. You can try contacting some of the editors for the paper with information about your book and asking whether or not they'd be interested in reviewing it. You can also try contacting some of the people in the papers in any country, really. I can't guarantee that they'd cover you but it's a good place to start and since your book is considered indie, it would be you that would have to approach them rather than wait for them to approach you. News shows are a good place to start- see if your local news station would be willing to do a spot on you. As far as keeping the article, we can't entirely keep it based on that, but we can transfer a copy to your userspace and you can work on it there. I also recommend getting some help from WP:INDIA, as they're used to knowing which sources in India are the best to use. Just be careful about some review sites, as most of them cannot be used as a reliable source. Merchant sites are also unusable as reliable sources. One last bit of information: if you do manage to get coverage from a paper, make sure that it isn't a press release or anything that you typed up yourself. That would be considered a primary source even though another paper printed it.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 13:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep,I find it bias that she wrote her book an article,but I heard of this book somewhere on the internet so I know there's a source somewhere.74.178.177.227 (talk) 15:55, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment My book? I'm kind of puzzled as to what book you mean, as I don't write books. If you're talking about Witches of East End, I didn't write it and the big difference here is that the book has received multiple reviews from major papers and is in the process of becoming a TV show. Big difference here.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 03:55, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think the poster was referring to the article's creator and primary contributor, who is also the author of the book.Omgee (talk) 23:24, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No reliable sources in newspapers and other professional publications. I will change my vote to Keep if 3 or 4 such sources can be found, depending on quality and publication of reviews. No problem waiting for a few weeks. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 20:31, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is a slight indication of notability. (though not reliable as sources, but still.) There's an entry in Goodreads for it [1], Amazon [2], Google books [3], Barnes and noble [4], etc. However, there are no reliable third-party sources or reviews I can find, even after an exhaustng cursory search. Mostly found vanity webpages. Thus, this fails WP:NBOOKS. Also, I have an issue with the creator of the page, who admitted to having a conflict of interest, being the author of the book herself. Bonkers The Clown (talk) 07:38, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing is that anyone can upload a book onto any of those sites relatively easily, so getting your book onto Amazon or Barnes and Nobles isn't the feat it used to be. I could knock out twenty pages of me describing what I ate for dinner this past week and have it on Amazon and B&N within a few days. It'd be up on Goodreads almost instantly, as soon as I could persuade one of their librarians to add an entry for me, which wouldn't be hard.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 03:55, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:GNG and WP:NBOOK. --Odie5533 (talk) 14:19, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails notability tests as above. At present, the article is entirely unsourced. The primary contributor to the article is the author, which suggests a possibility of conflict of interest, or, at least, an opportunity for bias. I could get past that issue if there were some better sources or evidence of notability, but as it is, I'm in favor of deletion. Omgee (talk) 23:24, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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