Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Man of the Fields

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete per WP:SNOW. The arguments here are clear about a lack of notability, closing early since there's no real chance of this surviving even if it ran for the full 7 days. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 02:20, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Man of the Fields

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Non-notable book by a non-notable author, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry F. Wilde. Previous PROD nomination from Kudpung was declined. – Joe (talk) 07:03, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science fiction and fantasy and Literature. – Joe (talk) 07:03, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No secondary sources found. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 07:57, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It says it sold hundreds of copies world wide. LOL! The guy created an article for himself and his book, not many other edits. Dream Focus 08:10, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
On Amazon, you can read a sample of the text. That will help you understand the sales figures. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 08:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Best Sellers Rank: #2,535,677 in Books. Dream Focus 09:09, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, would possibly be eligible for speedy deletion since the article is clearly publicity, but hey, why hurry these things? Elemimele (talk) 08:34, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per my original PROD: 'Non-notable book by a non-notable author' . Just noting here that the creator made the mandatory minimum number of edits to become autoconfirmed, by making very minor edits to Anthony G. Forlini such as making and removing commas or very slightly modifying some prose to no benefit of the article. When this Afd is closed, please salt all the titles created by this user. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:15, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No, that would be a misuse of salting. Salt should only be used to stop repeated re-creation of a non-notable article. There has not yet been any recreation here. It is likely that the author misunderstood the point of WP (this arises regularly at the teahouse; a lot of people fail to understand that WP isn't just a variation on wordpress). Further, in the event of the author's career taking off, premature salting creates an unnecessary obstacle to producing a proper article further down the line; we should reserve the salt for cases where it's genuinely needed. Elemimele (talk) 10:39, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Except of course that I fully concur with Dream Focus. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:15, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.