Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sleep stripping


 * 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. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:16, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Sleep stripping

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Article does not meet notability or verifiability guidelines; only two external links provided, both to health message boards. Google search provided no reliable sources. Miniapolis (talk) 17:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. All sources I could find were about prisoners being stripped by their guardians while sleeping, and that's simply not what this stub is about. --  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 17:51, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 18:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, there were more external hyperlinks provided in the first revision of the article. But they all pointed to writings whose authors are unidentifiable and thus whose subject expertise and reputations for fact checking and accuracy cannot be determined.  Uncle G (talk) 20:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete If this isn't a joke, it is still unverified. --MelanieN (talk) 23:26, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It's not a joke. What it is is a completely wrongheaded and foolish way to write an article: Start from people with pseudonyms asking questions &mdash; They don't even know the facts of the disorder. &mdash; on WWW discussion fora, make up a name from whole cloth, and build an article from that.  Encyclopaedists should build articles from reliable sources that know the subject.  Such sources would (and indeed do, in the literature) talk about parasomnia.  (There are a few articles here and there that report this activity as one symptom of a parasomnia.)  An encyclopaedia should impart knowledge to those who don't know, not amplify the ignorance.  Uncle G (talk) 07:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete A3 - nothing more than a definition. - The Bushranger One ping only 05:33, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * There's enough content to avoid an A3 speedy. Barely. --  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 15:48, 10 October 2011 (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.