Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spiritual healing

 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 - redirected - SimonP 23:30, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Spiritual_healing
Article appears to be religous proselytizing, and non-encyclopedic. I vote Delete Wikibofh 21:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. True, it appears so but it is an interesting encyclopedic subject. The article needs a major revision in order to focus on spiritual healing instead of Muslim spiritual healing. It concerns all other human beliefs. Svest 00:32, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Salvage the useable parts as a merge and redirect to laying on of hands. Soundguy99 03:03, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup, do not merge since "laying on of hands" is not the only form, see Christian science. Gazpacho 03:55, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Clean up. Needs universalist treatment (definitely has Islam-centric POV at present).  Could subdivide out into sections like Judaism/Islam/Christianity/Other.  The phenomenon has existed in biblical accounts since Elijah and before, occupies about 20% of Christian bible texts, and interest in it was more seriously revived by Christian Science starting about the turn of the 20th century, about the same time mainstream Christianity in the US came under active challenge from the scientific revolutions.      Chris Rodgers 04:04, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sure, the subject is definitely worthy of an article, but is any of the current content?  It's a nice essay giving some good advice, but I don't see an encyclopedic article in it. Maybe move it to Wikibooks or something. - Mustafaa 06:05, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This needs alot of work. Many different types of spiritual healing. I.e Judaism feels that God outsources his healing powers to doctors. And hence sick people must seek medical help for their ailiments. Christian science has a whole theology around it, which is very different from spiritual healing in pentecostalism. Klonimus 04:04, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Although the subject deserves a keep, the article demands a delete. Nothing in the current article is of any use in creating an encyclopedic article.  Start over from scratch. Quale 04:06, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, agree with Quale. Gazpacho 20:39, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Subject is fine, but all content needs to disappear so that a proper article can be written. Jayjg (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe we need a vote for Blanking I keep the article as a stub, but remove the extant content? Klonimus 20:48, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to faith healing. I was going to clean this up (ie: delete 99% of it) and turn it into a stub, but it seems to be more or less synonymous with, and well covered by, faith healing. I'm going to add the link to Quranic healing to faith healing, though.
 * Oh, I don't think deletion would be a good idea - this term seems to be fairly widely used. --Kieran 14:46, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I've done some fixing up on faith healing, and mentioned the term spiritual healing there. I think it should be ok to turn spiritual healing into a redirect to faith healing (or vice versa). --Kieran 15:09, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to faith healing. Sam Spade 01:31, 10 May 2005 (UTC)


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