User talk:Apollo-kun

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JohnCD (talk) 19:24, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Twisted Complex: A Ballad of Two Fractured Humans

The article Twisted Complex: A Ballad of Two Fractured Humans has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

there is no indication that this unpublished book is Notable - see WP:BK#Not yet published books: "Articles about books that are not yet published are strongly discouraged".

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JohnCD (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD Nomination: Twisted Complex: A Ballad of Two Fractured Humans

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Twisted Complex: A Ballad of Two Fractured Humans meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twisted Complex: A Ballad of Two Fractured Humans. Don't forget to add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last seven days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, a neutral third party will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. JohnCD (talk) 20:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference, I suggest you read WP:UPANDCOMING. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Threshold Standards Help

You asked for input about guidelines, here are the basic things to meet without which no book article will remain.

Threshold standards

Books should have at a minimum an ISBN number (for books published after 1966), be available at a dozen or more libraries and be catalogued by its country of origin's official or de facto national library. For example, in the United States books are catalogued by the Library of Congress; United Kingdom at the British Library; Australia at the National Library of Australia; Canada at the Library and Archives Canada; France at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, China at the National Library Board; in Brazil by the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional; Argentina at Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina; and in India at the National Library of India. For a complete list, see List of national libraries.

However, these are exclusionary criteria rather than inclusionary; meeting these threshold standards does not imply that a book is notable, whereas a book which does not meet them, most likely is not.

I hope this helps somewhat. I am no admin, I just gave my opinion on the article as it now stands. If you wish to save it now rather than recreate the article later after the fame grows the wikipedia article should reference articles or reviews in newspapers or magazines, show the winning of awards or recognition of merit, and to some extent getting on a best seller list. Sometimes the notability of the author seems to rub off on the book. Read the WP:Notability guidelines for more. Good luck and good editing. Capitalismojo (talk) 02:41, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additional note - the problem is not with the article, but with its subject, which does not meet Wikipedia's standards, set out in Notability (books) for an article about a book. You say "this book is expected to boom in popularity", but see WP:UPANDCOMING. Sorry, but the time for an article is after it has achieved at least the threshold standards above, and attracted significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject; and even then you, as the author, are not the person who should write it. JohnCD (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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