Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Napoleon Disentimed

I count 5 delete, 2 keep. Geogre didn't state a vote, and he's certainly capable of doing so without prompting, so I didn't count him one way or the other. I'm going to delete it. Wile E. Heresiarch 23:01, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

From VfD:

Napoleon Disentimed: advert for an unremarkable book. Vanity article of User:Hayford Peirce. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:40, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For the record: amazon.com sales rank 1,925,971 (paperback). Wile E. Heresiarch 16:59, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

delete 66.238.96.194 07:02, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Please bear in mind that anonymous votes don't count on vfd. Wile E. Heresiarch 15:50, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Gets a ton of hits on Google. I agree that it's promotional, incompletely assessed for significance, and heavily evident on the web from few people. If you have 50 fans, and they're all web-active, you're going to get a pile of hits seven years later. I'd love to see a neutral hand work this over. Geogre 13:29, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Agree currently vanity and promotional, but candidate for cleanup, not deletion.Iainscott 16:22, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- But how is cleanup going to make the article any less created by the author in defiance of the principle "Please do not create an article to promote yourself"? There's nothing much else that's wrong with it, as far as I can see. And wouldn't there in any case be something absurd in expecting other people to clean up after a skilled professional author? I don't in the least mean to quarrel with Iainscott here, though I can see it looks like it — sorry — just after clarification. Provisionally voting delete. Bishonen 19:20, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Published novel from a legitimate publisher. I don't want to encourage users to publicize themselves here, but any editor could have just as easily written this. As long as it is encyclopedia and NPOV, it should stay. Gamaliel 03:58, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Non-notable, and only 200 hits on google for quoted title, and those seem to just be bookstores and the like. Somebody came up with an algorithm for translating sales rank into keep/delete. First, you decide what the maximum percentage of Wikipedia articles about books should be. Then you multiply the current number of articles by that percentage. If the sales rank is better (smaller number) than that result, you keep. In this book's case, we'd need to have about 583% of Wikipedia be about books to get it covered. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:45, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. More vanity from this guy whose other works we've already deleted. Rick K 06:51, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Vanity and Amazon sales rank 1,925,971. Andris 12:17, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

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