Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mystery school


 * 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. W.marsh 18:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Mystery school


looks like completely unsupported original research to me &mdash;Hanuman Das 23:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per my nom. &mdash;Hanuman Das 23:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Its a joke piece scope_creep 00:06, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it isn't. Once again: If you actually focus upon doing the research and looking for, reading, citing, and evaluating sources, you'll get the right answer.  For examples: You can read about Pythagoras' mystery school on page 41 of ISBN 1592572154.  You can read about the several "mystery systems of the Wester Esoteric Tradition" on page 102 of ISBN 0415303524.  You can read an opinion of how trustworthy Herodotus is, based upon the assertion that he was inducted in the Egyptian mystery school, on page 179 of ISBN 0887387993.  You can read about the Egyptian mystery schools in general on page 338 of ISBN 1417940778.  And if you are averse to books for some reason, there is always the (less reputable) World Wide Web. Whether this article should stand separate from Mystery religion is another matter. Uncle G 01:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I had a further look at the article and the reason it should be deleted, as that it has little or no intrinsic knowledge in the article itself. scope_creep 01:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * We call such articles stubs. This article even sports the Ancient-Egypt-stub tag.  Per our Deletion policy we don't delete stub articles that have scope for expansion. Uncle G 02:36, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Xdenizen 01:09, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Duplicates material already found in mystery religion or Eleusinian Mysteries. "School" in this context seems (based on my reading of Uncle G's sources) to be more in the sense of "school of thought" or group of people with a common belief so this is probably unnecessarily duplicative of mystery religion. JChap2007 02:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. I couldn't find anything in the sources that indicated a definite distinction between the two, although my opinion is thus merge, per JYolkowski below. Uncle G 10:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Mystery religion, reasonable search term even if it does duplicate stuff in that article. JYolkowski // talk 03:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this school does not meet any of the criteria specified by the WP:SCHOOLS standard. As the school is unaccredited, it would need to meet WP:CORP standards, and there seem to be no reliably sourced articles for the school. Furthermore, the school does not seem to have any campus, either in Egypt or Greece That, and it seems to all be unsupported original research. Alansohn 05:39, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Well of course it doesn't meet WP:SCHOOLS; as mentioned numerous times above, it's a school of thought, like liberalism and capitalism. My vote: Merge into Mystery religion. -- Charlene 13:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect for now to Mystery religion. Real term. JASpencer 14:14, 11 November 2006 (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.