Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yogani

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 userfy. (ESkog)^(Talk) 05:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yogani

This is blatant self-promotion. The sole contributor to the article is Yogani the author and founder of the group, [[1]], (the article of which is also up for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP)) This goes against What Wikipedia is not in that it violates all three points of

Wikipedia is not a Soapbox:

Wikipedia is not a soapbox or a vehicle for propaganda and advertising. Therefore, Wikipedia articles are not:

1. Propaganda or advocacy of any kind. Of course, an article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to approach a neutral point of view. You might wish to go to Usenet or start a blog if you want to convince people of the merits of your favorite views. You can also use Wikinfo which promotes a "sympathetic point of view" for every article. Wikipedia was not made for opinion, it was made for fact.

2. Self-promotion. You are free to write about yourself or projects you have a strong personal involvement in. However, do remember that the standards for encyclopedic articles apply to such pages just like any other, including the requirement to maintain a neutral point of view, which is difficult when writing about yourself. Creating overly abundant links and references to autobiographical articles is unacceptable. See Wikipedia:Autobiography, Wikipedia:Vanity, and

3. Advertising. Articles about companies and products are acceptable if they are written in an objective and unbiased style. Furthermore, all article topics must be third-party verifiable, so articles about very small "garage" or local companies are not likely to be acceptable. External links to commercial organizations are acceptable if they can serve to identify major corporations associated with a topic (see finishing school for an example). Please note Wikipedia does not endorse any businesses and it does not set up affiliate programs. See also WP:CORP for guidelines on corporate notability. Sfacets 01:20, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. —Hanuman Das 01:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - it's what's not in bacon. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Subject is not notable.--Jersey Devil 04:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- Gogo Dodo 06:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: Well nominated. Delete for advertising and likely vanity article. We get dozens like this every day. Geogre 12:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. NawlinWiki 12:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ismusee 15:23, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - unverifiable as well. Sirmob 18:01, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --S0uj1r0 23:41, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Neil916 07:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Dear Wikians: Whatever you say, it is your world, though I do suggest investigating before shooting from the hip. You may be missing innovations happening under your nose. Yes, you have rules for all of this, but when you do not prudently investigate, you are driving this service toward contentious irrelevance. Wiki has been called a "fools paradise," and it is easy to see why. There is no new knowledge here, and perhaps never intended -- like the dusty old encyclopedia we have on the shelf here. Even this year's update is out of date. I am wishing you all the best on your quest for truth. Please remember, the guru (all knowledge) is in you, alive in this moment. Revealing it in efficient ways is the whole issue, at least as far as yoga is concerned. That is 35 years of hard-won experience speaking to you. Yogani 10:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Move to User:Yogani. -999 (Talk) 16:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Userfy, though with the user talking down to us like that, it's very tempting to be unkind and just say to throw it out wholesale. Jacqui^★ 13:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks to Hanuman Das, I am learning. See my talk page for details. Apologies for the lecture, but you must admit you all have not been very helpful so far, acting more like gunslingers at a penny arcade than editors. The only purpose of AYP is to bring powerful easy-to-use yoga practices into the public domain (for free), and it seems there can be some overlap between that objective and Wiki. In fact, very little exists on Wiki on the particulars of individual yoga practices, and many new verifiable articles in this area are needed. Hanuman agrees. In any case, I understand what you are doing better now and will do my best to help out.

• It is kindly requested that this article be moved to my user page, where I can clean it up for that purpose. If that is not possible, then I will repost a suitable version of it there when this one goes by the boards. Thanks much! Yogani 14:44, 25 July 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.