Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superior Person's Book of Words

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The result of the debate was keep. —Xezbeth 07:06, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Superior Person's Book of Words[edit]

Seems to be an advertisement for a book, no noteworthy information. delete. Ben talk contr 04:49, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Keep and allow for an organic growth. I have just rewritten it into a book stub and added its ISBN number. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:40, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - having an ISDN number doesn't make it noteworthy.--Dave63 10:05, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Most people have upgraded to DSL by now. Keep —RaD Man (talk) 13:58, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I could apply for an ISBN number for my backside if I wanted to... actually, that's not a bad idea... Master Thief Garrett 11:37, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep Notable and widely-published book, part of a series, Amazon rank around 10K, not bad at all for a book that's been around for two decades. If this were a sci-fi or fantasy book, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. :0P Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:58, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:38, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep - features regularly in The Times and seen around. r3m0t ^talk 22:03, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep and expand. Well known book. Capitalistroadster 22:25, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Real published book. Klonimus 00:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. A published book and real also! How great. If the book is that well known, why don't you write something about it.

I wonder seriously whether wikipedia is a place for more or less arbitrarily reviews of books or restaurants or whatever. It's not a telephone directory or something. If you look at how the article was like when I put it here for vfD, you would laugh probably. Now, I wonder, how you want to extend the article: "It's a nice book with a lot of words"... I mean is there something beyond the fact that it exists, that it has an ISBN, and is real real? Ben talk contr 05:15, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

- Restaurants are much harder to verify, especially since they don't show up in libraries. They also change very frequently. Kappa 18:42, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
keep and allow for organic growth it is a real book Yuckfoo 17:53, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. Very well-known book. I've owned a copy for nearly twenty years - except mine is called "The Superior Person's Little Book of Words". --Centauri 01:53, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Again: That this book is real real real doesn't make it encyclopedic. This is not an argument.

The one argument here for "keep" has been importance, i.e. "well-known book", i.e. a good seller, and being mentioned in The Times. That may be and I didn't know of it. That indicates there could be something noteworthy about it beside that it is a book and it has a ISBN and many people bought it (which is not noteworthy by itself). If that's the case I withdraw my "delete". Ben talk contr 06:48, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Keep, real book. Would fit nicely in an "encyclopedia of vocabulary builders". Kappa 08:39, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, quite well-known (not that notability is a deletion criterion, but... ;-)). James F. (talk) 11:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If it's encyclopedic, it's worth having. Scott Gall 22:12, 2005 May 14 (UTC)

I hope you weren't meaning to include vandalism in your definition of "encyclopedic." Nazism isn't cool 22:16, 14 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Same reasons as Scott Gall. Nazism isn't cool 22:16, 14 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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