Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American College of Orgonomy

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The result was merge‎ to Wilhelm Reich. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:35, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

American College of Orgonomy

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Lacking in significant coverage from independent sources. The sources currently in the article are either by the subject (#1), don't mention the subject (#2-5, which are about orgone generally), or only mention the organization in passing (#6-7).

Sources not mentioned in the article are better, though not enough to save it from deletion [1] is the only one I've found that discusses it in depth, but a single source isn't sufficient for an article. Other mentions ([2][3]) are clearly trivial.

Also, while this doesn't strictly bear on whether the article gets deleted, it's also worth noting that the article was transparently created by a member of the organization, and a glance at the history will show that it's been repeatedly whitewashed, even if the current iteration isn't. Vahurzpu (talk) 04:57, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations and Medicine. Vahurzpu (talk) 04:57, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:34, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:21, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Week keep It's getting 10K+ hits on google, and is a fairly well known college of nonsense. At worst, this should be merged to Wilhelm Reich, but not deleted. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:11, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Like to hear more opinions on whether this article should be Redirected or Merged.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:21, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:51, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect to Wilhelm Reich per Headbomb as a short (condensed) paragraph, perhaps a single sentence. An encyclopedia can document that pseudoscience exists and that it even runs colleges, but it really doesn't need to give weakly-cited dross more than minimal coverage. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:47, 1 July 2023 (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.