Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kitchen witchcraft


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:15, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Kitchen witchcraft

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Concerns were first raised about the validity of this article at the Talk Page in 2013. Nothing has happened since. This is, however, a clear candidate for deletion. On the first count, it is about a subject ("kitchen witchcraft") for which no WP:Reliable Sources appear to exist (no academic publications etc). Connected to this is the fact that it clearly fails to meet the notability guideline. Moreover, it also appears to be "Advertising or other spam without any relevant or encyclopedic content (but not an article about an advertising-related subject)" given that it is solely sourced to Ann Murphy-Hiscok's The Way of the Hedge Witch: Rituals and Spells for Hearth and me, an occult work that is non-RS. Midnightblueowl (talk) 17:10, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:41, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.  Lady  of  Shalott  23:13, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete The problem with the available sources are that they are not independent. The primary source, Murphy-Hiscock, is written from the standpoint of a practitioner. And that reference also includes a comment about Telesco, author of one of the "Further reading" sources, herself also a practitioner, according to Murphy-Hiscock.. A gScholar search seems to turn up scholarly references, but they are equally unpromising as to notability for Wikipedia's purposes, such as, for example, a well written historical survey which uses a Terry Pratchett quote as a source for "kitchen witchcraft." (No disrepect to the late Mr. Pratchett's body of excellent fictional works on witches, elves, trolls, goblins and more.) There is a lack of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources per WP:SIGCOV. Geoff &#124; Who, me? 18:11, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete Not enough external references for this to exist on its own. I'm fine with a merge as a subsection within a general article on witchcraft, though. South Nashua (talk) 18:34, 20 February 2017 (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.