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A tag has been placed on Seeds of Hope (book), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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September 2017 edit
This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Seeds of hope, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Please do not make irrelevant changes to articles. The book Seeds of Hope by Soecy Gummels appears not to have any relation to the article Seeds of hope. reddogsix (talk) 14:56, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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Seeds of Hope (book) edit
Hello. I just removed the overly-detailed chapter summaries from Seeds of Hope (book). Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction and Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary. Furthermore, you must not offer any of your own opinions or analyses of the book: this is considered original research and is prohibited. All analyses must be attributable to reliable secondary sources (reviews, books, etc.), or they will be removed. Articles on fiction (or even non-fiction) must not consist merely of plot and character descriptions, but should include real-world context: the impact of the work on society, awards it may have won, development of the work itself, etc. --Animalparty! (talk) 23:10, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
The article Seeds of Hope (book) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Notability concerns. No references in the article; I can only find secondary references for a different book of the same title by Jane Goodall.
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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:44, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Bmhasset - I received a notification of this nomination. Unfortunately I have to agree with Power~enwiki in that the book doesn't seem to pass the notability guidelines for books. The book exists and can be read, but it looks like the only independent, reliable source I can find is a review from RT Book Reviews, which isn't enough by itself to assert notability. Typically books need about 4-5 sources to establish notability unless they've won a major award or something similar. It can be fairly difficult to establish notability for books, especially books released through an indie publisher, as Seeds of Hope was, as many of them rely almost solely on the author to do the bulk (or all) of the publicity for their works. This means that the vast majority of these books won't gain enough coverage to justify inclusion, as there are always more books than there are places that can review them, especially the outlets that Wikipedia would consider reliable. 4
- There were also issues with original research and tone with the article, as another editor pointed out. With Wikipedia we can only include things that have been very explicitly stated by the author or an authority in a reliable source. Basically, we could only cite a theme if it's stated in a review, in a foreword or other piece by the author, or similar. We can't pull stuff from the book, as this is considered to be original research.
- Don't let this discourage you from editing overall though - this happens to all of us. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:37, 24 October 2017 (UTC)