Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong


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The result was keep. Salvio giuliano 15:23, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong

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Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage to show that it passes WP:GNG. I am sending both this article and the article about the Chinese academic who developed it to AfD as I did not feel bundling was appropriate. All the current sourcing in this article is primary sourcing, although the article about the academic did include a single independent source which goes in-depth about both the procedure and the academic. Both articles were tagged for a week without improvement, after which I sent this article to draft, and prodded the other one. This was returned to mainspace and the other was de-prodded, both without improvement. Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage to show that either passes GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:03, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Martial arts and China.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 12:16, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep alternative or complementary medicine widely taught in China as part of the nation's education curriculum, adopted, and used in hospitals in China, as demonstrated by multiple reliable sources. Shoerack (talk) 12:50, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Health and fitness and Medicine.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:43, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The book notes: "Another is Daoyin Yangsheng, developed by Zhang Guangde 张广德, a Beijing academic who developed serious health problems and in 1974 was diagnosed with heart disease and tuberculosis. Then, as the workshop flyer of Red Lotus Tai Chi Qigong in New Hampshire says, [quote]. Zhang's system, which is quite popular in China and practiced variously in the West, is documented in his book Daoyin yangsheng gong 导引养生功 (2001). Acknowledged officially as a form of qigong and recognized by various martial arts and sports organizations in China, it involves moves that are adapted from taiji quan but that are gentler and more medically focused. Its sequences tend to specialize in different areas of ailments. ..."  The book notes: "In the 1970s Daoyin Yangsheng enters the picture. Daoyin Yangsheng is a modern healthcare system created by Professor Zhang Guangde and taught at the Beijing Sports University. This comprehensive system follows the usual Daoyin actions of gentle exercise with breath control, the stimulation of key acupoints in the body, self massage and mental development but has now been updated by combining Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern knowledge of anatomy, physiology and medical theory. Professor Zhang made a keen study of the classical theories of the Daoyin, Yangsheng and Longevity schools. He had inherited a family owned "Exercises for Chronic Diseases" from his maternal grandfather and started the development of modern Daoyin Yangsheng when he, himself, was severely ill. Basing his work on this huge wealth of traditional knowledge, Professor Zhang developed his new style to combine the methods of Daoyin with physical exercise and mental cultivation. It was through the use of this health system, so it is claimed, that the Professor overcame his own illnesses."   <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li>I am listing this source for completeness. This source doesn't establish notability as it is a primary source in which Zhang Guangde, the academic who developed it, is a coauthor.<ol> <li></li> </ol> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 08:12, 30 January 2023 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep Again, thanks to Cunard for his work on finding sources. Clearly meets WP:GNG. Papaursa (talk) 14:58, 30 January 2023 (UTC)


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