Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fanhui chanting


 * 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 delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:42, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Fanhui chanting

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Delete Thanks to JMKR92 for adding more sources to this article, but I still see no evidence of notability. Specifically, the sources cited, with one exception, do not mention the subject, Fanhui chanting; they are about chanting generally. The source that does mention this term by name is a Wordpress blog devoted to Fanhui Chanting and which contains a total of three posts--one of which is about the creation of the Wikipedia page that is in question here. This does not, it seems to me, qualify as evidence of third-party interest. (There's also a citation to a Facebook page with 5 followers, similarly devoted to the subject.) I see no references in books or on the Web to any of the terms introduced here, which is strange for a phenomenon that is supposed to have been around for 6 years. At best what we have here is a very private practice known only to a small circle of associates; at worst, it may be a hoax. Jmatazzoni (talk) 22:28, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Spirituality-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:37, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 13:47, 30 March 2016 (UTC) Delete it may not be an blatant or obvious hoax, so WP:G3 probably doesn't apply, but the wordpress post celebrating the creation of this article, referred to as "recognition and the path to victory", the names that yield no search results at all and the reference to the hundi-hundi nights that must take place in complete secrecy, because they're not announced anywhere, even on their own website, make me think that this is a prank. And lastly, there's the recording of a chant performed by the group that leaves little, as they say on their own website, "doubt as to the sincerity of some practitioners of this new form". Mduvekot (talk) 23:31, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * On the prank question, note also the initiation of novices by "cleansing of all orifices with goat's milk". Again, this is a practice that could be a real thing but to which I can find no references to anywhere on the Web or in Google Books. Jmatazzoni (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 23:47, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. The above comments and research are on point.  I did a little looking myself, and I it looks like either a niche practice or a hoax.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 21:43, 8 April 2016 (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.