Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellow Bamboo


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 05:42, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Yellow Bamboo
Article about a sort of white magic cult that pretends it can teach its followers supernatural self-defense. Now in all fairness the article attempts to debunk this a bit but all in all, this is a non-notable group. You do find a bit of Google hits but mostly because videos of practitionners have been circulated on the likes of YouTube and because the practitionners have been fairly vocal about their claims. No reliable sources seem to exist on the subject. Pascal.Tesson 12:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The fact that The Amazing Randi and his Skeptics group sent someone there is a notable occurrence. The widespread dissemination of footage and response also adds to the notability of the group. --Scb steve 13:03, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for failing WP:NOT, lacking multiple non-trivial third-party articles about subject, no awards, no evidence of lasting contributions to the field of martial arts or magic. Google search turns up only 1460 hits for "yellow bamboo"+magic, which boils down to only 321 distinct hits.  Google is not the final arbiter of notability, but these hits fail to show more than forum posts, press releases, and other admittedly widespread self-promotions.  No question the group exists with verification, no such documentation or verification available for most of claims which fails WP:V.  In regards to Scb steve, my best information shows that Randi did not go, a volunteer went instead who admitted he failed to conform to testing conditions agreed-to.  Parenthetically, some Australian volunteers later took up the challenge with the following results.  Of the four external links listed, three are YB sites, and the fourth is said to be a Bullshido.net investigation of YB claims.  This site requires registration to enter.  There is no "investigation" per se since this is a forum for martial arts discussion.  Several links were passed around in this context, includng the aforementioned YouTube clip of the Australian test.  Tychocat 14:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Tychocat. (I know that's intellectually lazy but I wholeheartedly agree with them and there's no reason to repeat everything they said so well.) -- Satori Son 22:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


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