Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dianetics Today


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The result was delete. Mr.  Z- man  19:08, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Dianetics Today

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I was unable to find any secondary WP:RS/WP:V sources which significantly discuss and analyze this work. The book itself is not actually written by L. Ron Hubbard, but rather compiled from his writings, by the Church of Scientology. In a search for the title "Dianetics Today" in three different news archives, 2 of the archives came up with zero hits - and in the third the only results were brief mentions, the majority of which appear to be advertisements placed in those publications by the publisher, Bridge Publications (Scientology publishing corporation). Zero results for the book in an index of book reviews in InfoTrac. In a search in scholarly sources, found a mention in Christian Research Journal in an article by John Weldon - but this is only as a citation and the book is not discussed at all. In summation: no discussion of this book beyond a two-word mention of the title in any secondary WP:RS/WP:V sources. Any information could be merged with the article Dianetics - though I don't think there is much useful sourced info as the Wikipedia article itself at present only contains three references affiliated with the publisher of the work itself. Cirt (talk) 05:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I came to the same conclusion as Cirt. the article discribes in detail a book that is no longer used by scientology or sold anywhere.  the only information that gives a outside worldview of this book appears to be WP:OR in the Disaperance section.  if a secondary source could be found I agree with Cirt that the information could easily be murged with the Dianetics page...but so far my search didn't turn up anything we can use.Coffeepusher (talk) 18:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless citations from reliable sources (and anything Scientological isn't a reliable source for anything, much less for this book) are added to comply with the verifiability policy. Stifle (talk) 15:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 19:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 19:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and merge any relevent info into L. Ron Hubbard.Divinediscourse (talk) 21:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, not a notable book in the Scientology canon, a compilation/abridgment of earlier writings published once in the mid 1970s and not reprinted since. KleenupKrew (talk) 09:34, 20 April 2008 (UTC)


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