Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming

This article (and the set of articles linked to it) should be deleted because

It is promotional material for what is essentially a brand or product. NLP is not an academic subject, and there is no university that I know of that teaches NLP as a subject (there are institutions without academic charters that teach NLP for accreditation purposes, for a fee, but that does not make it an academic subject).
The related pages, which attempt to pass off NLP as an academic subject, are devoid of any intellectual content whatsoever.
The NLP article itself is now being used outside Wikipedia to promote NLP as a serious scientific subject, for financial gain.

I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reasons as above (i.e. blatant advertising of a commercial, pseudoscientific 'therapy').

Peter Damian (talk) 10:07, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I agree that the explosion of sub-pages related to aspects of NLP need to be curtailed as they attempt to pass off NLP as a scientific discipline, when in fact they are little more than abridgments of book chapters by NLP's creators and their followers. They are written as if the techniques and observations espoused are scientific facts, without any reference to articles in peer-reviewed journals to support those 'facts'. The sub-sections notwithstanding, I would support the existence of a single article on NLP, provided of course that it conformed to the usual expectations. Poltair (talk) 11:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Agree with this but wasn't sure how to propose this within the AfD framework. Yes. Delete the plethora of related articles, substantially rewrite the existing article to place it in context, i.e. as having a certain history (some of it within academia), but now entirely discredited within academia but a notable industry, particularly in the world of business and leadership 'training'. Agree. Peter Damian (talk) 11:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all except the main NLP article as per Peter Damian's excellent rationale and Poltair's suggestion. I see no evidence that the sub-articles have any notability or significance of their own. naerii 11:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP main NLP article -- The topic is definitely noteworthy (whatever one thinks of the merits or lack thereof of NLP itself). Don't really have time to look at all the other sub-article pages... AnonMoos (talk) 11:34, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]