Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tax-Free Wealth

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:13, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tax-Free Wealth[edit]

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Promotional UPE spam. Fails WP:NBOOK as I don't see any reviews sans a bunch of press-releases. Not much clue, as to what the sources are about. ∯WBG^converse 12:08, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:11, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Taking a look, the book doesn't seem to have any coverage out there that's in-depth and reliable. Of the sources on the article, some are written by Wheelright himself, at least one is a press release, and the others are also unusable to show notability as they're either self-published Forbes contributor blogs or they're sources that only quote Wheelright without actually going into any depth on the book or are otherwise not about the book at all. The sources aren't even usable to show notability for the author, to be honest. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 18:24, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:11, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I would like a chance to improve the sourcing of the article, with the intent of keeping it up. KoenigWrites (talk) 18:11, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Since it has been pointed out that it is advised that the article creator mainly comments and allows others to vote, I am going to withdraw my vote and change it to a comment. I have since added a few more sources, and will continue to improve the article until the discussion is closed, for deletion or not.KoenigWrites (talk) 02:16, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment KoenigWrites is the article's creator. Narky Blert (talk) 05:43, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not notable, just like its author (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Wheelwright (author). The claimed references are either mentions along with others , presumably arranged by the authors PR agent, or self-serving pseudo-interviews. The editor is an incompletely declared paud editor who has never declared with respect to this article. Arguments by paid editors, declared or not, for their own paid articles need a certain amount of discounting, for reasons that should be obvious. (the advice for those whose articles ae nominated for deletion is to comment, as for anyone else with direct COI, and let others decide. DGG ( talk ) 18:48, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The WP:REFBOMBING isn't as bad as it is in Tom Wheelwright (author) (12 citations compared with 31), but REFBOMBING it is. Only 3 of the 12 citations purport to be about the book as such: these reviews, 1, 2 and 3. You only need to glance at them to see that they are not independent, are promotional, and therefore fail WP:RS. Fails WP:GNG. Narky Blert (talk) 05:40, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - there are no reviews in reliable sources about this book. Compare a contemporaneous book about a similar topic, A_Failure_of_Capitalism. Bearian (talk) 19:03, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per Narky Blert. When my antivirus starts freaking out when I look at one of the sources, I know it is going to be a bad source. Rockphed (talk) 13:17, 18 September 2019 (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.