Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polar Nights

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 10:45, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Polar Nights

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No assertion of notability per WP:NBOOK; I can find no evidence online that this e-book exists, even at the linked author page and publisher's page. Proposed deletion contested by article's creator in edit summary here. Altered Walter (talk) 15:54, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Altered Walter (talk) 15:55, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete No assertion of notability. Could be userfied. Mcewan (talk) 16:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete ISBN search reveals nothing, the books doesn't exist. The article on independent.co.uk is written by "simon hacker" but there is no mention of "polar nights". WP:TOOSOON or WP:HOAX. Alfy32 (talk) 17:07, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a non-notable book. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) (formerly R——bo) 19:56, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-notable. Might be a hoax, but with the paucity of verification from reliable sources, who knows? Michaelzeng7 (talk) 22:19, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There is nothing to show that this book is going to exist other than this Wikipedia article, and I mean nothing. The most I can assume is that this something that is either self-published or is going to be going through a publishing house that's so small and unknown that it's almost like being self-published. (Some of the houses out there do have some standards and perform some editing, but ultimately sell the book through self-publishing venues such as CreateSpace or SmashWords.) Even if this book was being released through a known publisher and it was listed on their website, we'd still need coverage of this book in reliable sources, which doesn't exist right now. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 00:59, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The book indeed exists [1], but delete as non-notable and (given that the article has been created by a single-purpose account and the user's comment when removing the proposed deletion) probable self-promotion. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 06:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.