Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Body therapy


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus. TravellingCari 21:00, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Body therapy

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Contested PROD. Fork of Alternative medicine, where material is already present and dealt with in context. The article is a simple list copied from a "for Dummies" book, and adds noting that isn't already in the AltMed article. Any possible expansion of this article should actually take place in the AltMed article. This is one of a number of similar articles that have recently been created, and if the AltMed page would benefit from splitting this certainly isn't a good way of doing it. This is also a new term with little or no evidence of notability. The current AltMed page was also created by mergeing smaller articles that covered similar topics as this was the will of the community. Verbal  chat  13:38, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as nominator. Verbal   chat  13:39, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Afd is not a voting procedure. I think it's obvious that you want to delete this article. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:54, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't understand your comment. If I didn't want it deleted I wouldn't have brought the AfD. My reasons for deletion are given above, and I'm making clear my position. I'm fully aware that AfD is not a vote, thanks. I'll expand a bit. Verbal   chat  13:57, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * What he means is that it is unnecessary to !vote delete especially when the nom indicates deletion in the nom's summary. MuZemike  ( talk ) 14:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Many AfD's start that way, and I see nothing about it in WP:AfD, and sometimes AfDs are brought where the nominator is neutral. Verbal   chat  14:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Most discussion do not in fact start that way, for precisely the reasons that the above two editors have stated. Please read the Guide to deletion. Uncle G (talk) 15:32, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I said "Many", not "Most". This is very off topic and distracting. Please keep to the topic at hand. Thanks. Verbal   chat  15:36, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've !voted at AfDs that I've started before, particularly if I hope to get input from relatively inexperienced editors. It gives them a template to follow.  I've always assumed that the closing admin was smart enough to ignore the line.  While it's not necessary for the nom to !vote, it's not necessarily a bad thing, either.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete (A3) — No content, nothing but links. MuZemike  ( talk ) 13:59, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A3 Only contains links to other articles. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 15:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * slow down A3 does not cover this--it covers articles consisting just of external tags, not those consisting of internaal links, which are better regarded as a disam page. There are some general books on this as a general mode of therapy,  -see Worldcat -- but I think the generally used  term is Bodywork, and this should be a redirect to that. DGG (talk) 16:43, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:33, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to Bodywork (alternative medicine). It is a reasonable search term. - Eldereft (cont.) 18:05, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bodywork (alternative medicine). I'll bet that this stub's original author didn't know that Bodywork already existed.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.