Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Cases of the Reincarnation Type


 * 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   keep. Listed for 13 days with no arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. The issue of merging can be discussed on the article's talk page. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:50, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

European Cases of the Reincarnation Type

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The main issue here is notability. There appears to be three very solid reviews which attest to the notability of this book: in the American Journal of Psychiatry (see ), the Journal of Psychosomatic Research (see ) and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (192(7):512, 2004). But there has been considerable debate about whether these and other sources are adequate. The issue is being brought here to facilitate wider community discussion and to decide what do with this article. Johnfos (talk) 21:38, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:21, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Convenience link to the relevant notability guideline, Notability (books). - 2/0 (cont.) 06:11, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to author The AJP review is written by a parapsychologist; this severely limits its usefulness as a source, but they appear to be independent enough for the purposes of WP:N. The JNMD source does not appear to be a substantive review. The JPR source is currently only being cited to support a statement that it exists; if there is good material here, it looks like it should probably be added to the article. On balance, treatment of this book looks like it would fit better at Ian Stevenson than as a stand-alone artcle. - 2/0 (cont.) 06:31, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:14, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to have pretty well-established notability, opposition to it appears to be ideological Valyard (talk) 19:09, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per comments of Johnfos and Valyard, especially that opposition appears to be ideologically motivated. In regard to notability, an additional point is that E. F. Kelly and E. W. Kelly list this book in Irreducible Mind as one of seven notable books on "cases of the reincarnation type" (CORT) (including 4 others by Stevenson, plus Shroder and Tucker) in their Introductory Bibliography of Psychical Research. Their annotation says "With this volume Dr. Stevenson shows that cases of the reincarnation type occur in modern Western cultures, many of them similar to those from Asian countries in which a belief in reincarnation is widespread. He describes some cases from early in the 20th century, and then reports 32 cases that he himself investigated." Thus, this book is noted in scholarly circles for covering Western cases, which were previously thought not to exist. --EPadmirateur (talk) 04:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak Keep The reviews are sufficient for notability under our rules. whether it makes sense to merge them anyway is a different sort of decision--for which we really have no applicable guidelines, so if people want to write the separate article there is no justification for deleting or forcing the merge.  DGG ( talk ) 01:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep The multiple journal reviews give notability. First Light (talk) 04:19, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep . I agree to Valyard. This author and this book are important for the subject. Vini Siqueira 20:02, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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