Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quantum anthropology


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The result was speedy deleted  per G7. Materialscientist (talk) 08:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Quantum anthropology

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This article is about an idea that society may be understood in terms of quantum mechanical principles. I'm concerned that this may not meet WP:NOTABILITY and WP:FRINGE, or the standards of coverage of scientific topics (falsifiability-can it be proven false? etc.) I've contacted the page's creator Wikiditor, who describes it as "an emerging fields, so I do not found more articles. I think that this could be a really important field. If you find some more information I will be grateful." Blythwood (talk) 20:18, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I refine it (that this is an emerging field). I will be really sad, if the article will be deleted. I spend much time on it. I think that for article notability you need two references and there is two scientific articles and books about it. Wikiditor (talk) 20:26, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep Five articles in academic journals and one monograph published by Cambridge University Press sound like significant coverage in reliable sources to me. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 21:44, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. clpo13(talk) 22:05, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Dear colleagues, I am going to add 4 new references to this article (see below) - more specifically, 2 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 2 scientific books. Now, there will be together 4 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 3 scientific books and 1 scientific book chapter. I hope that this structure of resources confirms the notability of the issue significantly.Wikiditor (talk) 19:18, 20 December 2015 (UTC) Thank you in advance, New references: Rapport, N. J. (2013). A quantum anthropology of contemporary moments of being: Seven observations. Social Analysis. 57, 2, p. 117-128. link: https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/berghahn-books/a-quantum-anthropology-of-contemporary-moments-of-being-seven-Tguqf171KZ Pownell S. (1996). Quantum anthropology. Anthropology News, Volume 37, Issue 4, DOI: 10.1111/an.1996.37.4.2.2. link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an.1996.37.4.2.2/abstract Kirby V. (2011). Quantum anthropologies: Life at large. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. link: https://www.dukeupress.edu/quantum-anthropologies/index.html Barad K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. link: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Meeting-the-Universe-Halfway/


 * Delete, I rather don't think those references all mean the same thing when they talk of "quantum anthropology"; many of them seem to use "quantum" only as a buzzword. The Wikipedia article's content hasn't changed since those additional references were added; they merely serve as window dressing. In particular, the new references largely predate the one in which supposedly the "basic principles of quantum anthropology were formulated". The content of our article is based on something published in a journal on theology, not either anthropology or quantum physics, plus some self-published paper not subject to peer review. It might theoretically be possible to write a decent article about "quantum anthropology"; this is not that article. WP:TNT applies. Huon (talk) 21:52, 20 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep I do not mean that these publications use "quantum" only as a buzzword. The basic principles of quantum anthropology are mentioned there. I agree that the article could be better, for this reason I wrote it and published on Wikipedia. I hope that community help to improve it rather than destroy.Wikiditor (talk) 22:08, 20 December 2015 (UTC)


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