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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page
Decoding Reality
Just so you understand, the reason I deleted the article as "advertising" was that you didn't really write an article about the book; apart from the infobox, all the article really contained was a description statement that appeared to be copied and pasted directly from the book jacket itself (which means I could also have deleted it as a copyright violation), and a link to the Amazon.com page.
Articles on Wikipedia need to be original content, so what you need to do is to write a
I wanted to choose an example for you to look at of a science book article that's well-written enough to demonstrate what I mean, but not so thorough that it's likely to be an unattainable model for you to work toward — so take a look at The Ragged Edge of Science. Your article doesn't necessarily have to be a slavish copy of that, but it should be written in something like that kind of style: the way it's described from the perspective of a third person rather than that of the author, the way it provides a basic synopsis of the book's content and an explanation of why the book is significant, the way statements are referenced to sources, etc.
If you do want to work on getting the article up to snuff, you can do it at User:Jacob.biamonte/Decoding Reality so that you have time to work on it without it getting deleted before you're ready.
Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 19:27, 26 August 2010 (UTC)