Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations/Removal/Demystifying Depression

Demystifying Depression
This book is dangerously inaccurate and badly sourced. As discussed on its talk page, the majority of the book is written by one person (Name of Feather) who has failed to show any sort of accreditation or qualification. Their sources are terrible and invalid, and the pseudo-scientific ramblings within the book barely align with that information given by the low-quality, unspecific sources he has. There is no evidence that this guy has any idea what he's talking about.

This would normally not be much of an issue. However, the book is on a serious subject, and the front page previously was listing it as a Completed book. This is bad because


 * 1) The wikibooks community should not portray this as a standard of excellence for books.
 * 2) We should not give the impression that the wikibooks community portrays this as a standard of excellence for books.
 * 3) The wikibooks community should not portray this as a legitimate guide to dealing with depression - such a thing is dangerous.
 * 4) We should not give the impression that wikibooks, or indeed the Wikimedia foundation, portrays this as a legitimate guide to dealing with one's depression - imagine the liability issues or the field day a muckraker could have with this.

I'm concerned with a depressed person trying to use this book to solve their problems, as well as image. I think the subject is serious enough, and that enough other people other than me have expressed their worry as to the book's accuracy and value that it's worth taking off the front page. I am going to take it off the front page for now, clean slate. If anyone wants to contend my grievances against the book, or argue that it's important and complete enough to be returned to the front page, please state so here. - Monk talk 13:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * This book has already been removed from this list. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 15:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)