Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of accredited schools of naturopathic medicine in North America (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:42, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

List of accredited schools of naturopathic medicine in North America
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The topic is extremely narrow in relevance, which seems to fail to meet WP:Notability and to violate WP:Overcategorization. There is also some confusion about the criterion "accredited." The U.S. Department of Education accredits the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME), which is then independently tasked to accredit naturopathic programs. Therefore, to reflect this reality, the title should be changed to reflect that they are accredited by CNME. This would make the article even more overcategoried. There is also a separate accreditation offered by another naturopathic organization, The American Naturopathic Medical Accreditation Board, which has accredited seven schools in the U.S. and Canada. I do not think it is relevant to have a page dedicated to naturopathic programs accredited by any organization. Trhermes (talk) 14:15, 31 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Toffanin (talk) 17:32, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment. WP:Overcategorization has nothing to do with lists or anything else in article space; it is relevant only to categories. postdlf (talk) 03:08, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete — There are several problems with this article. First things first, the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNMD) claims that their accredited schools offer an education equivalent to medical school programs; that is a lie, since CNMD's recognition isn't based upon the scientific validity of what is taught at the accredited schools — for more information on the topic, see this article from Stephen Barrett, M.D. Secondly, all the naturopathy schools accredited by CNMD receive much of their financial support from companies that market dietary supplements and homeopathic products (read: quackery sponsored by sellers of quackery products). On top of that, naturopathic services are not covered by US Medicare, or most world-wide insurance policies, since U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) recommended against of naturopathy due to its pseudo-scientific nature. Finally, all the CNMD's accredited schools account for a total of less than 1,000 graduates per year (approximatively ~200 graduates per school); those low numbers don't corroborate WP:N. An entire WP article dedicated to any naturopathic accrediting agency is too narrow in relevance to be included in WP. Toffanin (talk) 08:22, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not against naturopathy my self, but this is little more than WP:LISTCRUFT. It has only passing mentions and listings as sources.  If it's not improved, I would have to go along with delete. Bearian (talk) 15:28, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


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