Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Humanism (life stance)

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. As normal, if deleted material is required for later article creation it can be restored for attribution purposes. Aaron Brenneman (talk) 05:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Humanism (life stance)

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This is described as an ideology or worldview (or "life-stance", an apparent neologism associated with the worldview) allegedly associated with a great number of organizations. The article's core problem is that it does not cite any substantial coverage of the subject "humanism as a life stance" in reliable (preferably academic) sources; instead all sources are associated with the organizations claimed to be related to the topic. Because of the genericness of the label "humanism", any relevant sources are not easily found via Google. This lack of sources means

that there is no basis for a neutral, verifiable article,
that the notability of the subject is indeterminable;
that we can't disprove the contention that this whole article is original research by synthesis about a topic that does not exist as such (or is not distinguished from secular humanism) in the view of reliable sources.

The article should therefore be deleted unless, per WP:BURDEN, reliable independent academic sources which describe this topic as a whole are provided. Sandstein 23:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge back to Humanism, a much better sourced article of which this article seems to be a WP:CFORK. -- RoninBK _{T C} 02:41, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd say we should do this, but remove "Renaissance Humanism", simply putting it as a secondary article. Cosman246 (talk) 20:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. There is no clear difference between the topic of "humanism as a life stance" and "humanism" in general, especially if "life stance" is merely code for a worldview. YardsGreen (talk) 12:49, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd agree there's not a lot of difference, by why can't we merge one into the other, instead of deleting the information here? -- RoninBK _{T C} 09:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Because much of it is unsourced or redundant to what is already at Secular humanism. That article, not the overall Humanism article, should be the merge target if a merger is decided on. Sandstein 10:09, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - The Humanism article contains a section that seems to have much of the relevant information in a summarized form. If you think there is more in the life stance article that should be kept, I'd support merging the article, although I can't say whether Humanism or Secular Humanism is the more appropriate merge target. YardsGreen (talk) 12:44, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:40, 12 January 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.