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The result was delete. Name was claimed to be OR, article has been renamed, so just the redirect with the bad name to remove Ronhjones ^(Talk) 22:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative perception spectrum[edit]

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This is a non-existant disorder or label. I searched in quotes for "Alternative perception spectrum" and brought up no reliable sources which even mentioned this proposed alternative name for schizophrenia so the article name is original research and original thought. Literaturegeek | T@1k? 11:07, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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It is a portmanteau that summarises some of the historical and recent links between autism and schizophrenia from the perspective of the campaign to abolish the label of schizophrenia. I am seeking advice from various people and sources such as the royal college of psychiatrists on this.

Darwinerasmus (talk) 11:50, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is needed is reliable sources to demonstrated WP:N. I cannot find any.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 11:56, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support deletion, as the nominator.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 11:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This seems to be an academic paper, truly unencyclopedic.--JL 09 ^_q?_{_c} 13:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete Unclear whether this is about a campaign to rename "schizophrenia" to something more politically correct, or about other persons' theories about the causes and treatment of a particular type of mental illness. As to the former, one of the sources in the article [1] indicates that there are a lot of proposals. It happens-- bipolar disorder is the current term for what we used to call "manic depression", for instance, and the psychiatric community seems to take on new names to call attention to new treatments. The difference is that I see no evidence that this term is going to be considered for taking on. Mandsford (talk) 15:48, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: This is OR: an option from a name pool is not notable for an article. Probably taking a look at the sources not even the controversy over the name of schizophrenia is notable to merit an article of its own.--Garrondo (talk) 16:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that i rework this article as

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Darwinerasmus/social_construction_of_schizophrenia

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and invite discussion comments on that. Darwinerasmus (talk) 17:43, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest discussing another article title on the main schizophrenia article talk page.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 01:32, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this article has been moved and redirected. I still think that the redirect should be deleted. I am not sure what to do about the new article, some new content has been added but still problems of irrelevant or misused references, ugh.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 13:24, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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