Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syncretist Movement

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 10:59, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Syncretist Movement

Entirely non-notable and possibly non-existent literary movement which I suspect of being vanity advertising for the writers involved. Google hits for Syncretist Movement as a literary, as opposed to religious, movement seem to all derive from this article. No references are provided to enable verification. One of the authors added large claims for this movement to Poetry earlier today, which is how I ended up here. Filiocht | The kettle's on 13:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy Keep Google for Syncretism rather than Syncretist Movement. Try adding some authors such as Derrida. There's thousands of hits in French alone e.g [1] Dlyons493 Talk 14:23, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • None of which has anything to do with G. Michael Palmer, Ian Meares, Jimmy Nil Fishhawk and Stephen Dare who are, apparently, the movement's leaders and whose vanity project I suspect this and related pages to be. Try Googling for any of these names + Syncretism. Maybe they should all be listed here. Filiocht | The kettle's on
    • OK I was reading Syncretist Movement as just a potential redirect to Syncretism rather than an attempt to set it up as a distinct movement in its own right with the above as leaders. Dlyons493 Talk 14:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not a major movement, and any number of inappropriate edits have been made on behalf of the four people mentioned in that article. I just reverted Michael Palmer, an article on a major poet which had been rewritten to be about the G. Michael Palmer mentioned in the Synretic Movement article. Wikipedia is not a space for advertising. Chick Bowen 19:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as unverifiable, unless references are provided. Paul August ☎ 20:50, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn as a movement in its own right. Maybe just redirect it to Syncretism which is what anyone searching on this probably really wants? Dlyons493 Talk 22:39, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't think a redirect is necessary, Dlyons. No one would call Syncretism a "movement," and the adjective is syncretic anyway. Chick Bowen 04:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't feel strongly about this either way - one could read Syncretist as a noun in apposition which is what I mentally did when reading the article first. Dlyons493 Talk 10:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Vanity article. Andrew pmk | Talk 00:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: does anyone else feel that the four "leaders" should have their articles listed too? Filiocht | The kettle's on 07:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Thought about that: G. Michael Palmer has an anon doing inappropriate things with the Michael Palmer page but it is an anon user. Jimmy Nil Fishhawk seemed pretty nn to me but hardly seemed worth trying to get through an Afd. No evidence of a conspiracy by them. So on balance I think just get rid of this. Dlyons493 Talk 10:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
    • The anon you mention might be a sock of Ninodeluz. Possible. Chick Bowen 19:43, 12 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.