Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/"Earth, Inc."

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 Userfied per author request and WP:AGF, there being no content which would prevent its userfication nor policy rationale prohibiting it (i.e. WP:BLP). Article moved to User:Zwickertara/Earth, Inc. (book), and User:Zwickertara is cautioned that userfication isn't for holding, but for article improvement - it can't sit there forever. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 21:38, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Earth, Inc."[edit]

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Non-notable book. PROD removed by author. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 21:09, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Fails notability, appears to be self promotion. JBsupreme (talk) 21:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, possibly userfy:WP:N, WP:OR, WP:CRYSTAL. Google shows no signs of notability for the subject as the book has not yet been released to the public. The article can be recreated when this publication gets significantly covered by reliable outside sources. — Rankiri (talk) 21:25, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The book hasn't been published yet, but is likely to be notable when it is, based on the publisher's reputation and the subject matter. The reference to the book's author, Gregory Unruh, here suggests that he is probably notable as well. So perhaps the article could be moved to the incubator or somewhere else so that it could be revisited once the book is published (April 2010, according to the article) and reviews of the book are available. – Eastmain (talk • contribs) 21:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I can't find significant coverage in Google. I found zero souces in Google News. Fails WP:BK. Joe Chill (talk) 22:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ Userfy as below The author has no article, the book has not been published yet (it appears to have been delayed from 2009 according to the publication date here), no other relevant Google Books or Scholar results; No relevant Google News results. All other mentions appear to be advance reviews or from shops which will be stocking it. I don't see that at the moment it meets Wikipedia:Notability (books) - specifically with regard to the fact that the anticipation of the book is notable in its own right (in "Not yet published books" in that guideline). Perhaps when it has been published, it might meet WP:N but at the moment it does not. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 17:18, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If this article is kept, it will need to be moved to Earth, Inc. (without the quotation marks) as per Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Article title format -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 17:18, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, it might be best to use the title Earth, Inc. (book) as there is already Earth Inc. which might be confusing! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 21:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Creator has asked for this to be userfied (after I gave it as a possible solution) - see here. They feel that suitable references will be available in a few weeks. I cannot see anything too out of line to allow this to happen (although I will advise them to make it less advert-like!), so I am going to be bold and move it, and then request that the redirect page is deleted. When I've done that, I will come back here and close this discussion with the result "userfied". I won't do this until 20:00UTC (in about an hour and a quarter), so if anyone has any objections, could they let me know here? Thanks -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 18:49, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Approve I believe this is a satisfactory outcome. It's not clear that the book will ever achieve notability, as the author does not appear to have, but the future will tell about that. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 19:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy per Phantomsteve's suggestion. – ukexpat (talk) 19:07, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
delete The book is not notable & nothing notable comes up on google userifying the page may only be a waste of space and would eventually be nominated for an MFD ,it would be better if the creator of that article saves a copy of the article on his hard drive and restores it if it ever becoms notable--NotedGrant Talk 19:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment As there has been a further 'delete', I will not move the article to user space. Closing admin: should you choose to userfy the article, could you move it to User:Zwickertara/Earth, Inc. (book) (or something similar) to remove the quotation marks and let the creator (Zwickertata) know? -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 21:00, 3 February 2010 (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.