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The result was delete. Google searches are not reliable sources in and of themselves; if there are any; they should have been added to the article or brought up in the discussion.  Sandstein  06:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Biocentric individualism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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Sloppy, unsourced, etc. Jrtayloriv (talk) 06:43, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep & Clean/Source Scholar search returns a huge number of references to the phrase, which is pretty idiosyncratic. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 06:49, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Going to add an additional caveat/thought: the phrase seems to be used in reference to a broad topic. The article is about something one man wrote. A News search reveals the one man's article (which is in a verifiable source, but is obviously primary material). Article likely requires a fundamental rewrite. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 06:50, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Why not just include the theory in the article about the author, if he is notable enough to warrant an article? The theory doesn't seem that significant, and could probably be summarized in a few sentences on his bio article. Jrtayloriv (talk) 02:30, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The article says it is about one person's theories. That person does not have his own article and this article has no secondary sources. If "biocentric individualism" is something more than this (I am not saying it isn't) then a totally new article needs to be written on it. So either way delete this one as non-notable (or else provide sources that it is notable.) Steve Dufour (talk) 15:42, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 00:24, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I can't really find any good sources; this doesn't seem notable. ErikHaugen (talk) 16:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Varner's resume, here (pdf) mentions Biocentric Individualism twice, showing he's contributed to the topic, but it doesn't make it sound like he was the originator of it. And here, it says "Varner defends a form of biocentric individualism", suggesting he might have his own version of it, but again not supporting the claim that he originated the concept itself. There are other papers on the same topic too, by a number of authors, but I can find nothing that supports the claim that Biocentric Individualism originated with Varner. -- Boing! said Zebedee 11:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep I googled it, and it is a real topic, but this article needs a LOT of work. AbbaIkea2010 (talk) 22:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please share your findings - I would like to see some wp:rs? ErikHaugen (talk) 00:07, 27 February 2010 (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.