Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scalpelling

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 01:22, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Scalpelling
How has this "rare" body modification technique achieved encyclopedic notability? --GRider\talk 23:57, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * GRider, please tell me what you think should happen to Scalpelling. It is your responsiblity as nominator to clearly tell your fellow Wikipedians what you think should happen as a result of the nomination. —Markaci 2005-03-15 T 00:05 Z
 * Keep, google results appear to indicate this is a real and reasonably well-known technique. Kappa 01:00, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a real phenomenon that is known in the piercing community. DaveTheRed 02:07, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 06:44, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it never ceases to amaze me how some people consider themselves the gatekeepers of human knowledge -- as Markaci says, the nominator has a clear responsibility to present an alternative. Earpol 11:58, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it happens, it's a form of body modification, it's of interest to enough of us to have an article Kierano 17 Mar 2005
 * The only possible reason I can see for the proposal, following the Deletion Policy, is that it is too small a part of Body modification to warrant its own article. The deletion policy page clearly states that in this case, the page should be assimilated into the parent article, and a redirect put in its place. As far as I can see, this page should not have even been put up for deletion. Kierano 17 Mar 2005
 * Bizarre? Yes.  Disgusting?  Quite possibly.  Not notable?  *sigh*  No.  Keep.  Edeans 19:58, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Yuckfoo 21:09, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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