Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metal-rod exercises

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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. seresin | wasn't he just...? 04:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Metal-rod exercises

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This article is an advertisement masquerading as an article. Metal-rod exercises has not received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject and fails Wikipedia's notability criteria. The material used in an attempt to assert notability is self published by the creator of the article. The primary contributor to this article has written a self-published book on the subject (which is the only source cited in the article) and runs the website http://www.metalrodexercises.com/. This is a clear conflict of interest and per Wikipedia policy, self-published books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, forum postings, and similar sources are largely not acceptable reliable sources. Searches for other reliable sources turn up few (if any) third-party published sources. If no reliable, third-party sources can be found for an article topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. Quartet 13:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete advertising per nom. --AndrewHowse (talk) 20:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Maxim(talk) 14:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete as neologism, unsourced, advertisement for author's book (the only source in the article). It may also be worth discussing the author's other article Core stability which is closely related. Sheffield Steeltalkstalk 19:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete or Merge I think we should merge this into Strength training or delete as it (kinda) reads like an advertisement and only one reference.
  • delete per nom, WP:COI. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 18:56, 19 March 2008 (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.