Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thanatotherapy

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. Deor (talk) 12:14, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanatotherapy

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No references, since creation, other than to website promoting dubious non-scientific WP:FRINGE claims. – S. Rich (talk) 06:32, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:08, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete No assertion is made in this article to indicate that it meets Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:53, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Srich32977's comments. Lacks sources/coverage. Only based off of one website, and I'm not seeing much about thanatotherapy elsewhere. Upjav (talk) 04:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. "Thanatotherapy" appears to translate to "death therapy". There are a few obscure references to the term, the first GBook hit appears to be very tounge-in-cheek, that predate the material in this article. I would be OK with a redirect to Thanatology, but it is a very unlikely search term so I'm equally OK with "delete". Location (talk) 04:26, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Superb catch on "death therapy". As the "supporting" website was in Russian, I had simply scanned the Google translate version of the various pages. But Location's finding spurred me on to further research. So I Googled the name of the article creator – "Ole Dankwarth". Seems the real person is a naturopath in Germany. With Location's comments in mind, I'd say WP has been the victim of a hoax (really? how could this be true?), and numerous editors unwittingly came along to "improve" the article over the years. I would not desire to perpetuate the hoax via a redirect. – S. Rich (talk) 05:19, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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