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This book does not appear to meet any of WP:BK#Criteria:
A book is generally notable if it verifiably meets through reliable sources, one or more of the following criteria:
- The book has been the subject [1] of multiple, non-trivial [2] published works whose sources are independent of the book itself, [3] with at least some of these works serving a general audience. This includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries and reviews. Some of these works should contain sufficient critical commentary to allow the article to grow past a simple plot summary.
- The immediately preceding criterion excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book. [4]
- The book has won a major literary award.
- The book has been made or adapted with attribution into a motion picture that was released into multiple commercial theaters, or was aired on a nationally televised network or cable station in any country.
- The book is the subject of instruction at multiple grade schools, high schools, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country. [5]
- The book's author is so historically significant that any of his or her written works may be considered notable, even in the absence of secondary sources. [6]
Hrafn42
Talk
Stalk 06:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Currently, as I don't have access to any books, I can only point out again Occult Atoms. This is a reliable source and it discusses the book in a non-trival matter. If you insist, I will see if I can find some more sources, but together with the other sources whose reliability is not that clear I would consider this sufficient. Zara1709 15:12, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
All that I'm really trying to do is prevent this article from simply being a spam magnet, and thus a discredit to wikipedia. If somebody from WikiProject Occult is prepared to take over minimal maintenance (e.g. providing sufficient citations to establish notability -- which seems likely to be possible, getting any citations into good order -- rather than leaving one as a German translation of its English name, occasionally clearing out the spam-links, etc), then I'm more than happy to turn it over. It then becomes "somebody else's problem". Hrafn Talk Stalk 15:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I've added the standard book-info box (managed to get original publisher off an online rare books retailer). There are dozens of editions of it, so have just thrown in a couple more that still seem to be in print (the original was printed 60 years before ISBN was introduced). I'll consider this article to be your/WikiProject Occult's problem from here on in. My problem with accuumulating linkspam is more that it is an indication that an article is getting no maintenance, so could end up getting completely vandalised with nobody noticing. Happy editing. :) Hrafn Talk Stalk 17:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
References
4070 hits for "occult Chemistry" at Yahoo let's see what's in there. Zara1709 15:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
After examing the first 200 hits cursorily I would conclude that this book as some notabilty within the field of occultism. About 1/3 of the webpages the search engine found were the full book or partial excerpts thereof. Among the rest there were some online bookstores, and a few occult bibliographies, and some text using the phrase occult chemistry to refer to alchemy. There is also a band calld "Occult chemistry", but I only found two hits for them. Zara1709 15:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
This site is the personally registered site of Anand Gholap of Pune, India. He has a disclaimer that he is not responsible for the use of anything on his site ( http://www.anandgholap.net/Terms_Of_Use.htm). He makes no special claims of expertise or any affiliation. A number of texts and images from books are on his site but copyright status is uncertain as he does not have specific permission to make these public domain but has added these on the basis of his understanding of copyright law which is not the same as Wikipedia's. His site fails WP:RS and WP:ELNO and should not be used as a reference or link for any article apart from (possibly) an article about himself.— Ash ( talk) 21:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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This book does not appear to meet any of WP:BK#Criteria:
A book is generally notable if it verifiably meets through reliable sources, one or more of the following criteria:
- The book has been the subject [1] of multiple, non-trivial [2] published works whose sources are independent of the book itself, [3] with at least some of these works serving a general audience. This includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries and reviews. Some of these works should contain sufficient critical commentary to allow the article to grow past a simple plot summary.
- The immediately preceding criterion excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book. [4]
- The book has won a major literary award.
- The book has been made or adapted with attribution into a motion picture that was released into multiple commercial theaters, or was aired on a nationally televised network or cable station in any country.
- The book is the subject of instruction at multiple grade schools, high schools, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country. [5]
- The book's author is so historically significant that any of his or her written works may be considered notable, even in the absence of secondary sources. [6]
Hrafn42
Talk
Stalk 06:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Currently, as I don't have access to any books, I can only point out again Occult Atoms. This is a reliable source and it discusses the book in a non-trival matter. If you insist, I will see if I can find some more sources, but together with the other sources whose reliability is not that clear I would consider this sufficient. Zara1709 15:12, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
All that I'm really trying to do is prevent this article from simply being a spam magnet, and thus a discredit to wikipedia. If somebody from WikiProject Occult is prepared to take over minimal maintenance (e.g. providing sufficient citations to establish notability -- which seems likely to be possible, getting any citations into good order -- rather than leaving one as a German translation of its English name, occasionally clearing out the spam-links, etc), then I'm more than happy to turn it over. It then becomes "somebody else's problem". Hrafn Talk Stalk 15:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I've added the standard book-info box (managed to get original publisher off an online rare books retailer). There are dozens of editions of it, so have just thrown in a couple more that still seem to be in print (the original was printed 60 years before ISBN was introduced). I'll consider this article to be your/WikiProject Occult's problem from here on in. My problem with accuumulating linkspam is more that it is an indication that an article is getting no maintenance, so could end up getting completely vandalised with nobody noticing. Happy editing. :) Hrafn Talk Stalk 17:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
References
4070 hits for "occult Chemistry" at Yahoo let's see what's in there. Zara1709 15:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
After examing the first 200 hits cursorily I would conclude that this book as some notabilty within the field of occultism. About 1/3 of the webpages the search engine found were the full book or partial excerpts thereof. Among the rest there were some online bookstores, and a few occult bibliographies, and some text using the phrase occult chemistry to refer to alchemy. There is also a band calld "Occult chemistry", but I only found two hits for them. Zara1709 15:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
This site is the personally registered site of Anand Gholap of Pune, India. He has a disclaimer that he is not responsible for the use of anything on his site ( http://www.anandgholap.net/Terms_Of_Use.htm). He makes no special claims of expertise or any affiliation. A number of texts and images from books are on his site but copyright status is uncertain as he does not have specific permission to make these public domain but has added these on the basis of his understanding of copyright law which is not the same as Wikipedia's. His site fails WP:RS and WP:ELNO and should not be used as a reference or link for any article apart from (possibly) an article about himself.— Ash ( talk) 21:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)