Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SLS Health


 * 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. Grand master  ka  07:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

SLS Health
This is a psychiatric treatment facility in New York State. Judging from the page history, it was created primarily to disparage the facility, alleging variously that their treatment methods are nonstandard or nonapproved, that they mistreat patients, etc., all either unsourced or sourced to blogs and other non-reliable sources. Recently an evident supporter of the facility has begun editing the article, wildly swinging it the other way, and adding extraneous information about the founders and their methods that do not belong in an article about the facility itself. My requests to the editors to adhere to verifiability and NPOV have gone largely unheeded, so I ran a LexisNexis search to see what I coud find myself. In the last 10 years the only newspaper articles to mention the facility are about other psychiatric issues, naming the director and quoting his opinion on unrelated topics. AND, one case in which a patient drove away from the facility and committed two murders. However this is not proof that their treatment methods are flawed, of that their care is substandard. The newspaper articles do not even allege, much less state as fact, that their security is lax. Fundamentally there are no reliable sources about this treatment facility, so it fails notability and verifiability. Thatcher131 07:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 07:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the nomination, it seems like a smear article and should be removed, perhaps by speedy deletion.--MonkBirdDuke 10:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep  I think they should be given some more time to resolve mthe matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.34.88.45 (talk • contribs)
 * Note, this is one of the IP addresses that has been repeatedly adding unsourced allegations and personal POV despite repeated advice on policy. Thatcher131 15:54, 22 October 2006 (UTC)


 * undecided I am not an objective source as I have positive experiences with SLS which I like to share. Regarding noteworthiness, they are one of the few facilities to offer exposure response prevention treatment for addictions and they are one of only a handful of facilities to use an objective, evidence based tracking system to measure patients progress. They track patients symptoms and improvement over time - this Target Behavior Tracking system is based on Dr. Santoro's Ph.D. thesis. Aside from that the Executive Director of the Wellness Center is a regular expert on Court TV. The people treated usually prefer to stay anonymous and so the lack of sources is not surprising. As the person attacking is very persistent and has now moved to the unprotected discussion page the downside of keeping the page is that it would probably have to be protected and/or patrolled for a long period of time. -- Rrgg 14:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as an attack page. Krakatoa  Katie  03:21, 27 October 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.