Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Word Workout

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The result was delete. Big Dom 18:42, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Word Workout[edit]

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This seems to be, in essence, an advertisement for a proprietary set of educational workbooks. Aside from the publications of Nancy K. Lewkowitz (who seems to be identical with "Word Workshop", the publisher of the workbooks), I can find only one study that deals with the specific methodology treated in the article; the other references in the article do not appear to be about Word Workshop per se. I'll say that this article violates both WP:NOTADVERTISING and—because of the absence of multiple, independent substantive sources—the GNG. (Note to Googlers: The words "word workout" are used in various other educational programs for vocabulary activities that are unrelated to the topic of this article.) Deor (talk) 04:14, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Deor. Lewkowitz, whose publications are used as most of the references, is the author of the material per this link from Word Workout's official site. Dismas|^(talk) 08:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Deor. The material also looks as if it completely fails Wikipedia:Notability_(books)#cite_note-textbooks-4. I don't see anyway to salvage this article. --Aspro (talk) 12:02, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:36, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:36, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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