Talk:List of Amistad Press books

This article was nominated for deletion on 3 December 2014. The result of the discussion was Keep.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles

Lists

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

referencing and tags[edit]

I participated in AFD about this list-article which recently concluded "Keep". And I removed notability tag and refimprove tag from article, but was reverted by this edit. Okay, well what specifically needs to be improved, reference-wise, or other-wise? It seems to me that there are a couple in-line references in the lede, and that there is not other referencing needed there. Also there is no big need to provide a reference for each book item listed, as it is an entirely factual matter, probably non-controversial, about which books were published by Amistad Press. Are there any specific problems? --do ncr am 20:26, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see no need to add a separate reference for each book. For example, the first book 32 Candles, could be "proven" to be an Amistad Press book by linking to an Amazon page, [http://www.amazon.com/32-Candles-Ernessa-T-Carter/dp/0061957852/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418607251&sr=1-1&keywords=32+candles&pebp=1418607264037 perhaps this Amazon page if this link works] to show the copyright page in a version of the book, which clearly states that the book was first published in hardcover in 2010 by Amistad Press. (Hmm, it seems you have to click twice further to get to the copyright page...click on the book image, then select Copyright page. Not useful to include link in article, IMO.) I think that such a reference for each one would be excessive and unnecessary. I did add a general reference link to a search screen that covers the Amistad Press books currently listed at the publisher. That might not cover every book, because maybe it does not cover ones out of print, but it probably covers most if not all. 145 or so copies of that reference would not improve the article. --do ncr am 01:41, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And this is why you in effect can bury all rules and regulations about company promo and spam. An indiscriminate list of predominantly in itself non-notable items is protected. It gives me the eery feeling that there are different rules for US-companies, as for other companies a list of products on sales is ruthlessly chopped. The Banner talk 09:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]