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It's on Cleanup, but I think this should either a delete, or a redirect to Napoleon Hill. The article was started by an anon in May 2004 and hasn't been worked on since. Suspect the intention was to promote the website for "a motivational centre in Malaysia: KERSANI Training Centre where the book "has been used." The website isn't in English so I can't find out from the site what the book is or how it's used.

I can't even tell for sure what book is being discussed—the author isn't named!

I'm guessing it's The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill. Amazon shows it as only available hardbound and in audio book format; I'm surprised it's not in paperback; this suggests to me that connoisseurs of the success oeuvre regard it as far less significant than Think and Grow Rich. Sales rank of one volume of the hardbound edition is 91,661. (Amazon sales rank of Think and Grow Rich is 391!!!!) So, the book itself is borderline; if someone deeply familiar with it actually wanted to do a good whole article on it, that would be OK, but it's not anything we actually need.

Actually the book described in the article not seem to match perfectly with descriptions of the Napoleon Hill book, as it says there are forty chapters altogether, and the Amazon reference is entitled "The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons," while as everybody knows (i.e. it's in another book title and is mentioned in our article on Think and Grow Rich) Hill had seventeen principles of success.

Judging by past history, I think it is very, very unlikely that the original author or anyone else is going to do much with it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:02, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

  • Delete. Critical information (i.e. author, date of publication) is not only unknown but, given the scant information provided, also virtually unknowable, unless someone should come along who actually owns a copy. --Smack 18:19, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Ambi 21:42, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - can't tell what it's about, and author's had since may to fix it up. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:17, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • OK, since Napoleon Hill did, in fact, write a book with that title I've just made it into a redirect to Napoleon Hill. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 22:58, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep the redirect. The book is mentioned in the Napoleon Hill article, so, the redirect is reasonable. Andris 22:38, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
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