Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Little Green Book
I did a search and there's just no substantial coverage for this book in independent and reliable sources to show that it has notability. As far as amount of copies sold, that actually doesn't guarantee notability and saying that it's sold tens of thousands isn't really that much when you consider that Suze Orman's "You've Earned It, Don't Lose It" has sold about half a million copies since its release and that's probably an outdated number. And even then that's not a guarantee that Orman's book has notability. There are a lot of books that sell hundreds of thousands of copies, yet never get enough coverage to pass notability guidelines. These are books by authors that are considered so notable that they have an article, yet their books just don't meet notability guidelines. A good example of this would be most of the books by Nora Roberts. She's an incredibly influential figure that has made a definite mark upon the literary world, both in her influence over other writers as well as via how prolific she is. Yet most of her books wouldn't be considered notable per these guidelines because the individual works have not been covered in enough reliable sources. We can't add them simply because the author is notable or because her works have sold insanely well and been loved by millions. They have to have independent and reliable sources to show notability. We can't keep an article because  or  or . The reason we have the guidelines in place is because there are a lot of books that are not notable and are unlikely to ever be so. I hate to say it, but this book falls in with the other books that will probably never be notable. I'm sorry that your feelings are being hurt, but this book fails notability guidelines. It's not an elitist thing as much as it is just a "this book has not been covered in any reliable sources at all" thing. On a side note, I think that you might want to read . I see that you share the same name as the author, so if you are the same person then you might want to avoid creating and editing things that you are involved with. There's no rule against it, but it's very, very hard to avoid having a conflict of interest in these situations because it's so easy to see notability where there is none as well as to take something personal when it isn't
— User:Tokyogirl79, 03:32, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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