Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nabuderian Pluridisciplinary Methodology
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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. Sandstein 12:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Original research by an editor who seems determined to use WP to publish his ideas. The first version of this article used his own works as the main references; now removed but out of only 74 google hits for "Pluridisciplinary Methodology" exactly one is linked with the name Nabudere as well - a book by the article's author. There is no evidence of a specifically "Nabuderian Pluridisciplinary Methodology". Fails WP:OR, WP:Synth andy (talk) 11:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete (as original prodder). Some of the information could be merged into the Dani Wadada Nabudere page, but there's no evidence that the methodology itself is notable enough for its own article. ... discospinster talk 15:53, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as WP:Original research and ideally make a brief mention of the author's book about his method on the Dani Wadada Nabudere article. Alternatively, this could be a redirect to Dani Wadada Nabudere if/when that page contains such information. MsBatfish (talk) 05:57, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: In the interests of fairness I'll list the following references, which the author placed on his Talk page rather than in the article or the AfD:
- http://www.sarpn.org/documents/d0000510/P466_Pan-African_University.pdf: an article by Nabudere who uses the word "pluridisciplinary" several times.
- http://www.bankie.info/content/cad.pdf: an article by Nabudere who gives a single quote from another author who uses the word "pluridisciplinary" once
- http://www.mpai.ac.ug/towards.htm: an article by Nabudere, who mentions the term once only where he advocates a social science methodology which "goes beyond what is normally called... pluridisciplinary"
- http://www.coreykatirmedia.com/spar-and-bernstein-bree-olsen: strange website consisting of snippets from wikipedia - and doesn't even mention this article!
- http://criticalmethodologicalstudies.blogspot.com: (1) a blog; (2) written by this article's author; (3) introduces the term and mentions Nabudere in the same paragraph. That's all.
- http://bitnik.org/pipermail/nettime/1999-March.txt: contains two French language articles talking about "Pluridisciplinary Music" and an unrelated English article that mentions Nabudere in passing. Utterly irrelevant.
- Conclusion: Nabudere has advocated, to some extent or other, a "pluridisciplinary methodology"; there are no references where it has been formally defined; there is no evidence that the concept has any significant currency; and there's no evidence that there is a specifically "Nabuderian" type of "pluridisciplinary methodology". The main advocate of the idea seems to be the article's author. andy (talk) 17:03, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 19:41, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.