Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dogabatic
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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 23:18, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
Dogabatic[edit]
No evidence is presented in the article to indicate why this "politically and economically motivated novel" is notable. A Google search gets 45 hits: two come from "The Official Homepage of 'The Dogabatic'"; all the rest come from a website with "ratjed" in the URL, always as part of the sentence "The Dogabatic: This new novel by Ralph Gillies may offer solutions for some of the worlds most important problems." Note that the article was created by User:RatJed.
Originally, the {{cleanup-importance}} tag was put on the article to raise the question of notability. However, despite this being a tag listed on Wikipedia:Cleanup, it was removed as a "tag for bogus unconfirmed policy", so now the question of notability is being raised here on VfD. -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:46, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete; probable vanity. —Korath (Talk) 21:31, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete as promo and lack of notability. Good reasearch on your part, by the way. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 22:09, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not independently verifiable - David Gerard 23:12, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 02:17, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Amazon doesn't list it. Article provides no ISBN number. Author's web provides no ISBN number. It has not been "published" in any usual sense of the word. Available as a PDF download with honor-system shareware-like "pay $23 if it is worth it" request. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:21, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. The upshot of this novel seems to be that its writer wanted to win the U.S. presidential election, 2004. "Everyone who votes red and black is voting to elect me to become President, is voting for Michael Jordan as my Principle of the Vice Presidency – if he accepts – is voting for the other members of the Mox Atom Presidential Administration – if they accept - and is voting to build a heterosexual male world... But we will also need me, Mox, who knows more about what is going on than anyone else... If John Kerry is setting up these international koban voting programs to build our arms and our legs, then, in one quantized reality, that is kind of like building our bones. Heh heh." (Insert joke about merging with United States Natural Law Party or Lyndon LaRouche here...) Samaritan 09:16, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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