Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Primal Diet

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DON'T DELETE: While the diet described may sound ridiculous to some, it is of interest to those who want to know more about the different diets that exist, and the guidelines for each. As a nutritionist, I found this article fascinating, not because I agree with the guidelines put forth in the Primal Diet, but of rhte diet's unique approach to health and human history. The article could be re-written to make it easier for readers to understand.

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 of the debate was delete. Babajobu 04:25, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Primal Diet, Aajonus Vonderplanitz

Article about a non-notable diet fad. "Primal Diet" only gets 6,000 search results on Google, and the creator is similarly doomed to obscurity with only 16,000 hits. If this article is deleted (which I hope it is), I propose this article be re-made with the topic being what "cavemen" ate, not some silly diet. Cyde Weys 01:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete infomercial for fad diet. Ruby 01:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Hatred for something different. The article is not very nice looking, but I appreciate the information. It does not deserve to deleted, especially for the reasons given. Terbospeed 03:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Aside from being an ad, God forbid someone gets sick from eating raw food because we didn't get this thing off Wikipedia. Ruby 04:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete for being borderline advertising and Vonderplanitzcruft. I'm sure there's an article of interest in here somewhere but not in its present form. Eddie.willers 04:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)


Is the number of hits the determining factor we'd like to set for entries? Is a fad a bad thing? I sought out information on this topic and found this entry. The excuses given to pull this post seem unbeleivable, and certainly not reasons the Wikipedia community wants to give credence to.

Yeah, you get E Coli from uncooked pork and then you puke your guts out, for a loss of twelve lbs in only four gut-wrenching days and nights. Ruby 05:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep It's a real diet and a real fad. Silly, but there you are. Needs cleanup though. Kerowyn 07:07, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete in present form, seems like an Infomercial type advert. OhNoitsJamieTalk 08:01, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to raw food diet; the merge, if any, should not yield more than one sentence of text. -Ikkyu2 08:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. It may be silly and potentially dangerous, but it is a real theory and verifiable (Google hits, books on Amazon). Turnstep 14:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Rolling in the creator as well, since he has no claim to notability beyond this
  • Delete snake oil. User has no contributions on other subjects, only thi, the creator, and adding [...] Aajonus Vonderplanitz, who has cured himself of several diseases, and helped thousands of others to do the same through the use of his Primal Diet to raw food diet. I see no verifiable evidence that this is anything other than another commercial fad diet with no proven medical benefit. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 20:01, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. advertising, nonverifiable, borderline bollocks.--MayerG 21:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete both per JzG. Stifle 13:57, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete (both) per Just zis  Guy, you know? and MayerG. Ifnord 14:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I am currently eating in this diet and have been following it in the last 4 years. People in Primal Diet mainly discuss inside a Yahoo Group, closed to the outside, and since their diet can be very extreeme often don't look for pubblicity. It is easy to verify what are the claims the Aajonus makes. It is not here the place to verify if the claims are actually true. The two articles need to be extended further.--Pietrosperoni 20:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Above user Pietrosperoni (talk ยท contribs) has edits only to this AfD and an edit war over effects of heat on enzymes - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] 20:49, 2 February 2006 (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.