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Vanity page by Kurt Kawohl. Seems relatively insignificant, but may be a better place for his POV rant above. Dunc_Harris| ☺ 18:53, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- This is deffo not notable. All google hits are for self-promotion pieces, and he's been googlebombing the hell out of wikipedia to achieve it (see below) Dunc_Harris| ☺ 21:22, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- This is what is technically known as a "book review". By the author to boot. Delete. -- Ianb 19:21, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Elf-friend 19:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- A Wikibook, to boot. Delete. -- WOT 19:59, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Let's see: the author has read it, so that makes at least one in the readership. It's also nice to see that folks don't need much to tell what was in the minds of historical thinkers. Delete it. It's not "harmless" except that it's nonsense and will create a very bad impression of Wikipedia in the mind of anyone who sees it. Geogre 21:31, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete book review. -- Cyrius| ✎ 21:54, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Vanity and book review. Spectatrix 22:24, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)
- I wish this gentleman would get the message. He keeps posting this stuff, we overwhelmingly vote to delete it and he keeps coming back for more. Surely there's a place where he can post his stuff. Delete all. - Lucky 6.9 05:43, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. If only that much enthusiasm could be turned to the neutral side of POV... Fire Star 16:10, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete, not sufficiently notable. Published in 2002. Amazon sales rank: 2,409,136. For comparison, consider the vanity book "Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book," which I vainly published out of vanity in August, 2003 via a self-publishing print-on-demand vanity press, and would never even dream of mentioning in Wikipedia ( ISBN 1403314063), has been out half as long as his yet has rocketed to an Amazon sales rank of 1,293,099. I know for a fact that mine has sold less than thirty copies, so Kawohl has probably sold fewer via Amazon. I have just invented something I will call the Amazon test. If we assume that no more than half the articles in Wikipedia should be articles about specific book titles, then we should restrict ourselves to a maximum of 6,852,348/2 books = currently about 160,000. Therefore we should not consider a book sufficiently notable for inclusion unless its Amazon sales rank exceeds 160,000. [[User:Dpbsmith| dpbsmith (talk)]] 19:55, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Vanity. Delete. DJ Clayworth 18:13, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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Vanity page by Kurt Kawohl. Seems relatively insignificant, but may be a better place for his POV rant above. Dunc_Harris| ☺ 18:53, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- This is deffo not notable. All google hits are for self-promotion pieces, and he's been googlebombing the hell out of wikipedia to achieve it (see below) Dunc_Harris| ☺ 21:22, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- This is what is technically known as a "book review". By the author to boot. Delete. -- Ianb 19:21, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Elf-friend 19:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- A Wikibook, to boot. Delete. -- WOT 19:59, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Let's see: the author has read it, so that makes at least one in the readership. It's also nice to see that folks don't need much to tell what was in the minds of historical thinkers. Delete it. It's not "harmless" except that it's nonsense and will create a very bad impression of Wikipedia in the mind of anyone who sees it. Geogre 21:31, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete book review. -- Cyrius| ✎ 21:54, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Vanity and book review. Spectatrix 22:24, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)
- I wish this gentleman would get the message. He keeps posting this stuff, we overwhelmingly vote to delete it and he keeps coming back for more. Surely there's a place where he can post his stuff. Delete all. - Lucky 6.9 05:43, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. If only that much enthusiasm could be turned to the neutral side of POV... Fire Star 16:10, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete, not sufficiently notable. Published in 2002. Amazon sales rank: 2,409,136. For comparison, consider the vanity book "Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book," which I vainly published out of vanity in August, 2003 via a self-publishing print-on-demand vanity press, and would never even dream of mentioning in Wikipedia ( ISBN 1403314063), has been out half as long as his yet has rocketed to an Amazon sales rank of 1,293,099. I know for a fact that mine has sold less than thirty copies, so Kawohl has probably sold fewer via Amazon. I have just invented something I will call the Amazon test. If we assume that no more than half the articles in Wikipedia should be articles about specific book titles, then we should restrict ourselves to a maximum of 6,852,348/2 books = currently about 160,000. Therefore we should not consider a book sufficiently notable for inclusion unless its Amazon sales rank exceeds 160,000. [[User:Dpbsmith| dpbsmith (talk)]] 19:55, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Vanity. Delete. DJ Clayworth 18:13, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)