Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Zone


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Jovanmilic97 (talk) 13:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Blue Zone

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Bullshit article. Promotional trainwreck. Article makes no third party substantiations on the genuity and notability of Dan Buettner's claim, while featuring great chunks of text from primary and associated sources produced by Buettner himself, with other sources used as a textbook violation of WP:SYNTH in support of this claim. Article otherwise failed WP:GNG and especially WP:NRV. Considering longevity is a topic under WP:ARBCOM discretionary sanctions and that numerous editors have filed neutrality complaints on talk page in the last 12 years, the fact that this trash survived this long is beyond me. The Dan Buettner article reads extremely promotional as well, with the SPA User:Cogentimperator being the creator and significant contributor to both articles (XTools: ), whose versions reads like advertisements pre-prepared or copied from elsewhere. WP:COPYVIO concerns seems to be pertinent as well. Tsu *miki*⧸ 🌉 08:13, 22 July 2019lo (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Looks well written enough to stay on.  Speaker616 (talk) 08:32, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:37, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:37, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:37, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note - Articles for deletion/Dan Buettner has been filed as well. Participants to this discussions are invited to weigh in there. Tsu  *miki*⧸ 🌉 08:39, 22 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep - Referred to as such by others (not Buettner - I'm not sure he even coined the term) - e.g. this book, or these journal articles: - quite a few hits on "Blue Zone"+longevity in google-scholar (and not passing ones - articles referring to this as a topic or attempting to identify an additional "blue zone"). If the article is promotional - it can be stubbed down to the bare minimum - however the topic itself is clearly notable.Icewhiz (talk) 08:42, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Mentions like "The so called ..." in only a few academic sources alone may belong to Longevity or respective regional articles, but does not justify a full article here. And the one source you cited even disproved Buettner's one regional claim. With few reliable news media sources, and all promotional Buetner bit removed, I'm not even sure if the things you cited may be written as a coherent paragraph of prose here. Tsu  *miki*⧸ 🌉 09:01, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Five journal articles that treat "Blue zone(s)" as a topic = meets GNG. And it's not just five - a simple scholar search for "Blue Zone" longevity shows multiple others (I just picked the first five hits - all of whom have "blue zone" in the title or in the abstract) - e.g., . As for Buettner - his book 2012 book - The blue zones: 9 lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest - has 381 citations - which is a rather strong indication of impact (and clearly passes WP:NBOOK). Icewhiz (talk) 09:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep - Article could be improved but there no need to delete it. Oranjelo100 (talk) 09:44, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep: as per Icewhiz's rationale. Cosmic Sans (talk) 15:39, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Obvious Keep, well sourced already. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:14, 23 July 2019 (UTC)


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