Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Every Woman in This Village is a Liar

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 Procedural close‎. This has been G5ed already. (non-admin closure) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 01:32, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Every Woman in This Village is a Liar

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Appears to fail WP:NBOOK. All the sources I can find seem to be interviews and mainly focus on the author rather than the book. --Ferien (talk) 15:34, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. --Ferien (talk) 15:34, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. Wikishovel (talk) 15:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. I cleared out the more blatant promo, copyright, Amazon sales link, the copyrighted photo uploaded to Commons as "own work" etc, with a growing suspicion that this is the latest sock of User:Ndizzy4glo: see SPI for background. I can find no guidelines in WP:RSP for which Nigerian newspapers to steer clear of for paid placement (along the lines of WP:NEWSORGINDIA), but the interviews here look like a lot like that: in the earlier version, there were several identical interviews published to multiple sites, and it's unclear why all these outlets are suddenly writing articles in 2024 about his 2009 novel. Wikishovel (talk) 16:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I suspect they were created to add "notability" for this Wikipedia article. The one I linked below talks about his debut novel (from 2009), yet was published less than a few weeks ago. I guess a 10 yr old book could suddenly go viral, but it seems odd. Oaktree b (talk) 18:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Very little discussion of this book, other than in Nigerian media. Odd that most of these sources that I find online are recent (in the last month) for a book published over a decade ago. I had hope for this [1], but it's just the author expressing how they feel about things, not really a review of the novel. Oaktree b (talk) 18:54, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~@Oaktree b thanks for your vote, since the article doesn't qualify to be on Wikipedia. I agreed for nomination, let it be deleted.~~

Please I don't know much about wikipedia, I only joined to contribute to Local government areas in Akwa Ibom State, since I saw the novel I decided to create an article for it. I'm deeply sorry if this article goes against wikipedia policy.

~~Usimite (talk) 19:14, 5 May 2024 (UTC)~~ Blocked sock. Wikishovel (talk) 03:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The creator of this item has been blocked on Wikidata for block evasion of Rock2222, Ndizzy4glo. Bovlb (talk) 16:10, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article creator has been blocked as a sock of Ndizzy4glo here on ENwiki as well, thanks Bovlb. Nominated for speedy G5. Wikishovel (talk) 04:00, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I did find a review in Champion Newspapers Limited, which appears to be a Nigerian newspaper. I am not familiar with whether this is an RS, but if it is, it would bring us halfway to NBOOK. As for why it's getting some attention now, according to these interviews (which are not useful for notability), it looks like the author is talking about this book as part of his promotion of a newer book. [2][3] ~ L 🌸 (talk) 17:49, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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