Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oracle Apps DBA

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. KrakatoaKatie 02:10, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oracle Apps DBA[edit]

This sounds more like a job description than an article. I fail to see the notability of this particular article. I tried to get input for a merge many weeks ago, no one was interested it seems. The article is all over the place, naming books and chapters, then going into a job description. I can't see how it can be salvaged, or that it is notable if it was. Pharmboy (talk) 22:41, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I tried to notify the creator, User talk:Oracle apps dba but that account has been blocked "because the username may be rude or inflammatory, be unnecessarily long or confusing, be too similar to an existing user". Pharmboy (talk) 22:45, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This is an attempt to advertise a book by this title — the one described in the infobox on the article. This book is not listed in most on-line book catalogues. There's no Library of Congress listing for it, for example, nor does Amazon sell it. I eventually found it listed in the on-line catalogue of a Mumbai bookshop. The book was published on 2007-11-15, just two days after this article's creation by an account with the same name as the book. One of the other single-purpose-accounts that have edited this article, Ebizsrv (talk · contribs), was in possession of images of the book's front and back covers just 2 days after its publication, which xe uploaded. Wikipedia is not an advertising billboard. If there's something to say on a subject by this name, we can start an article at our leisure, without hosting this advertisement in the meantime. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 00:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- -- pb30<talk> 03:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article can be salvaged and I have just made a first pass through it, citing another existing book. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - It looks like a basic job description. It doesn't meet any of the requirements for WP:NOTE and also falls in multiple categories of WP:NOT#DIR and/or WP:NOT#GUIDE. The creator's one-day, single-purpose account of the same name smacks of a probable WP:COI --JJLatWiki (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per above. JetLover (talk) (Report a mistake) 00:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a simple job description -- Whpq (talk) 15:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as above. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 01:55, 18 January 2008 (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.