Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shamanic story


 * 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. Weak consensus is that this term is not notable. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 15:28, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Shamanic story

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This article relies entirely upon the work of a single scholar, who is presumably non-notable. His published books are all from small publishers, and while Cambridge Scholars might be notable, Wessex Aquarian probably isn't. Hence, as a genre, (and opposed to the general concept of Shamanism) this is non-notable. StAnselm (talk) 03:58, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: The article appears to have been created as part of an educational assignment - see User talk:Hoopes. StAnselm (talk) 08:44, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. StAnselm (talk) 08:45, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment I haven't made up my mind yet, but so far this seems like an as of yet unnecessary POV fork from folklore. Most of what I'm finding about shamanism in stories tend to fall into two groups: shamanism in today's fiction or shamanism in folklore. The shamanism that is shown in folklore does not always sit up and say "hey, I'm shamanism" and is often woven into the culture of the story and country. What I'm basically trying to say is that so far the only person really using this term as a specific subset of folklore is Berman. There's not a lot of other chatter, although I've just gotten started. I'm not sure that this term is really all that notable enough to have its own article. It's debatable whether or not it's used enough as a term or a specific subset of the folklore genre to overall merit a mention in the shamanism article either, as the original editor has also added a section on the term and scholar on that article. It might merit a brief mention, but I'm slightly dubious about whether this term is really being used or if it's ultimately something someone came up with one day years and years ago that never really became popular in any of the anthropology, literature, or other pertinent groups that would show an interest in the sub-category of shamanism specific stories in folklore. If we can show notability for the author then maybe his research might merit a mention in the larger entry, but I see that there's a concern over his notability as well.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 12:09, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * delete Berman doesn't appear to have significant reference in other works, and the phrase "shamanic story" itself doesn't get much in the way of hits; most of these don't seem to treat it as a term. Mangoe (talk) 13:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 14:04, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Non-notable "genre" of fiction. OhNo itsJamie Talk 20:50, 18 September 2012 (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.