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AfD nomination of Understanding Apples

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April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Moonshine. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. I see you have added citations to J.S. Moore's books in several articles. Sorry, but this is a local author whose work has been published by a vanity publishing house. He is not yet notable by Wikipedia standards and his books don't warrant mention in broad-scope articles such as Tennessee, Moonshine, and Southern literature. --Orlady (talk) 18:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Vanity publishing

On my talk page you wrote

I appreciate your opinion, but I have to disagree. From what I understand this author JS Moore only self-publishes to retain the rights to his work. If you will check his reviews for his first book, they are outstanding and his book is ranked very well on Amazon. Lots of authors self-publish to avoid having to sign away the rights to their work. Look at Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. He has a Wikipedia page of his own, yet he is a self published author as well.

Mr. Moore's works have been favorably reviewed on Amazon, but positive reviews on Amazon are not reliable indicators of the quality or notability of the work. Anybody can post a review on Amazon, and it is widely suspected that authors and publishers submit reviews to promote their works. As for his reasons for self-publishing, you may be correct, but it is still true that his works have not received attention by reliable sources (local newspaper announcements of book signings don't count as reliably sourced coverage of his work). Certainly there is no basis (beyond his own statements and those of his friends) to recommend his books as authoritative sources for further reading on topics such as Moonshine, Tennessee, Appalachian Mountains, or Southern literature. --Orlady (talk) 01:21, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd recommend at least reading the book then or contacting Kingsport residents before removing the information. His work isn't just his own because there are multiple other authors featured in the books. (HaroldKarey (talk) 13:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC))

To understand why your suggestions will not be adopted here, I suggest that you read the Wikipedia policy on "original research" and Wikipedia policy on verifiability, as well as the Wikipedia guideline on notability. --Orlady (talk) 15:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)