Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cherokee moon ceremonies


 * 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The result was   Withdrawn. (non-admin closure)  Jay Jay What did I do? 03:01, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Cherokee moon ceremonies

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No sources, possible hoax, 8 years since last AfD when it was kept because it was too new with the provision "lets see how it evolves". It hasn't evolved. ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 22:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: Interestingly, the related article Cherokee calendar has just been deleted as a db-g3 blatant hoax. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 00:50, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Another note: The names of the moons and their etymologies, however, seem to be confirmed by many sources (with varying spellings), see, for example The Cherokee by Raymond Bial; so I suggest that if this is a hoax, the page be renamed Cherokee calendar, and stubbed down to a list of the months for the time being. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 01:00, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * But Raymond Bial is a photographer not an ethnographer. Are they repeated in any works by people who have a reason to know anything about Cherokee culture? I can see it is repeated in a lot of New Agey sites, but nothing that seems to have any legtitimate connection to Cherokee culture.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 01:04, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * See also Beginning Cherokee (a dictionary: search for the English names of the months); Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas & Missouri (again, search for the English names); Anthropological Papers (by the Smithsonian, 1966; search for the Cherokee names). There is nothing particularly New-Agey about any of these, I think.
 * No that seems legitimate. Would still be more of a list of words than an article, and WP:NOTDICTIONARY would apply.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 02:48, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note that I've found the article's original reference in the revision history, and I've restored it. On the one hand, the author is Joseph Bruchac, who, from his article, seems to be somewhat of an authority; on the other hand, it is a children's audiobook. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 02:56, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, yes. Bruchac is Abenaki I believe, but he would not misrepresent the beliefs of another Native group. I should probably withdraw this nomination, thanks for the research work. ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 02:59, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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