Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Four Precepts


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The result was delete. czar 21:01, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

The Four Precepts

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The article cites a term "The Four Precepts", and related definition, that are specific to the author, Wayne Ferguson. While I can see links to his own blogs/books on his term, they appear almost nowhere else and thus fail GNG. There are web links to an Islamic-concept of "The Four Precepts" (although, not in any material way, so the term would not attain GNG in this guise either), but that it is a very different definition (e.g. nothing to do with Ferguson/Nietzche etc.). I tried to "draftify" this but the creator moved it straight back to mainspace (i.e. so a PROD is not going to work). I, therefore, offer it to the community to decide at AfD. Britishfinance (talk) 20:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. Britishfinance (talk) 20:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. Britishfinance (talk) 20:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete When I tried to clean up the lead sentence, the only search results I found were those to the author's website. Doesn't seem to be a notable concept, no significant independent coverage. Schazjmd   (talk)  20:28, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. The author of this article,, has made a helpful statement on the Talk Page of this AfD: Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/The Four Precepts, about their motivations for creating (and re-creating) the article. This also shows a WP:COI regarding this editor and this article which I have notified them on. thanks. Britishfinance (talk) 21:24, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and per WP:SOAPBOX. -Crossroads- (talk) 04:30, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Completely non-notable, and a WP:SOAPBOX to boot. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:57, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:OR, SOAP, nom. Bearian (talk) 15:38, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and according to the creator's statements on the talk page. The subject does not become notable because a blog post about it has an "uptick in traffic." RoxAsb (talk) 07:30, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Pile on delete per WP:SOAPBOX. Wm335td (talk) 19:56, 16 December 2019 (UTC)


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