Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oil pulling (2nd nomination)


 * 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 Procedural close. It is not appropriate to nominate an article for deletion on the grounds that it should be merged while there is already a merge debate in progress (actually, there are two). In any case, merges can be decided on by editors without the need for an AfD.  Spinning Spark  18:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Please continue the merge discussion on Talk:Mouthwash as the other discussion has been closed to keep things together. TY Lesion  12:13, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Oil pulling
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I am placing this nomination on behalf of another user. I will have him place his nomination rational shortly. Safiel (talk) 05:09, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Mouthwash. My understanding is that for the most part, any useful material has already been merged. There is also a merge discussion going on which looks like it will end in a support for merge. Safiel (talk) 05:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment By the way, the user I placed this on behalf of is User:BenBurch User talk:BenBurch. Safiel (talk) 05:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect (Lesion is increasingly convincing me of the need for a merge) - but we definitely need this title available at the least. "Oil pulling" as the name of a practice is getting significant media coverage, and people will come here to look it up - it gets thousands of hits a day, with peaks in the tens of thousands - David Gerard (talk) 07:45, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Strange stats. What happened in this March (peak 50000 views/day) to make so many more people look at this article than has been normal in the previous months (normally 1000-2000 views/day)? Lesion  17:49, 29 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, if someone can demonstrate that it can be expanded using reliable sources enough to justify a stand alone article, otherwise seems like duplication currently. Atm, there is little content on oil pulling which has been easily merged... but there is room to expand a stand alone article if someone is willing to do the work. Problem is reliable sources. To discuss the effects of oil pulling on health, we would need WP:MEDRS sources. Only 7 sources on PubMed with search "oil pulling"... most appear to be primary sources. However, there are ~170 results for search terms like "essential oil mouthwash", not sure if it would be OR to link these to the oil pulling article if those articles do not explicitly use the term. I had a look for sources on oil pulling in google books too, and the first few pages were Alt med industry type books which were not reliable sources so I gave up. Might be worth also pointing out that oil pulling could be significantly expanded using non MEDRS sources, from a historical and cultural point of view, as long as such sources were not used to suggest that these essential oil mouthwashes have health effects, or to contradict what the more reliable scientific sources are saying. Lesion  11:16, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Rationale is that the content is already merged with Mouthwash and that this should be a redirect to that article. --BenBurch (talk)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 29 March 2014 (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.