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Article appears to function for spam advertisement promotion purposes. Only citation is to a hyperlink to Amazon.com. Article appears intended to drive readers to make a purchase at Amazon.com.
Sagecandor (
talk) 21:52, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep The OP misses the point that the book is co-authored by
Robert D. Hare who is considered by most to be the world's leading guru on psychopathy. The book is also mentioned in
Robert D. Hare. It is one of the pioneering books in its area although many more have now followed. Criticisms of the article content may require cleanup but are not grounds for AFD.--
Penbat (
talk) 09:23, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep: I must disagree with the reasoning for deletion. Article content is not a valid reason for deletion per se (see
WP:ARTN), I would submit that notability is the guideline being questioned in this case. Granted, there is a degree of promotion, and that must be fixed but this is not a valid reason to delete. I have found many sources covering this book:
[1][2][3]. This passes
WP:NBOOK.
TheMagikCow (
talk) 16:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment,
WP:AFDNOTCLEANUP and
"Article content does not determine notability",
Sagecandor, if "Article appears to function for spam advertisement promotion purposes. Only citation is to a hyperlink to Amazon.com.", do some
WP:BOLD editing and get rid of it, done (yaay!, will take a bit longer to enable removal of the cleanup tags:)), one site i check for an indication of notability is
WorldCat, if plenty of libraries have copies and/or theres been a lot of editions then there may be some reviews out there ie. with "Snakes"
it is in around 750 libraries, a gsearch has brought up some reviews, i've incorporated them into a "Reception" section, 1 or 2 of them may be discounted by some editors as "trade/trivial", but there appears to be enough.
Coolabahapple (
talk) 14:25, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep -- definitely notable. Here are a few reviews:
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. Mourik, Orli Van.
Psychology Today, Sep 01, 2006; Vol. 39, No. 5. The article reviews the book "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work," by Paul B... more
The dark side of charisma. Baines, David. Canadian Business, May 22, 2006; Vol. 79, No. 11, p. 142-143. A review of the book "Snakes in Suits: When Psycopaths Go to Work," by Robert Hare and... more
The book was apparently a #1 best seller in Canada in business books, as noted in "Business bestsellers". Canadian Business, 00083100, 9/25/2006, Vol. 79, Issue 19.
K.e.coffman (
talk) 21:27, 1 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep - I'm not very well familiar with this topic but the subject of the article seems to pass
WP:NBOOK.
Inter&anthro (
talk) 02:18, 2 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep, meets
WP:NBOOK, there are lots of reviews of Snakes, so it easily meets no. 1 of
WP:BOOKCRIT, have listed some more in the article (thanks to
Penbat and
K.e.coffman for the above).
Coolabahapple (
talk) 09:27, 2 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment Almost certainly also meets no. 5 of
WP:BOOKCRIT as well as one of the authors,
Robert D. Hare, has guru status in the psychopathy field.--
Penbat (
talk) 09:36, 2 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep - This article does seem to meet the notability criteria for
WP:NBOOK. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 19:57, 2 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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