The result was keep . The argument that this was a WP:SYNTH violation was a strong one, and the vague hand waving at Google results was a rather weak response. However, it seems in the end that it is possible to rectify the issues with original research and synthesis, so let's call it "keep but remove all original research." Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Essay masquerading as an article. The titular subject is synthesis from disparate primary sources. The previous AfD dates back to a more innocent period in WP's history when simply having a good number of references was sufficient to justify an article not being OR. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Argument from beauty (2nd nomination). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 20:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC) reply
The problem with just waving in the general direction of Google search results is that there are many "arguments from love" in the literature. The important thing to consider, which the Google wavers have not, is what those arguments from love are to. There's an argument from love to immortality originating with Gabriel Marcel. There's an argument from love to trinitarianism (and rejecting unitarianism) put forward by Sts Bonaventure and Augustine. Neither of those arguments are this argument, which is to the existence of God. After five years of asking, Nicholas Beale has yet to name who it is that propounds this argument.
Don't believe the "other people have edited it so it must be true" argument, by the way. Ironically, the editing by other people has been to challenge material in this article. There's reams of discussion on the talk page, and I'm sad to report that it boils down to the challengers getting tired of repeating the same question — Where in the literature is this argument propounded? — to which there has been zero response in five years, and editors getting distracted by ideas that only editors with a certain point of view may edit the article and Wikipedia editors themselves trying to determine whether the argument is valid.
I have a few more things to check before coming to a final conclusion, but at the moment I'm with Vesal. This argument — not something with this string of words as a title that a Google books search can turn up but this actual argument with the conclusion given — doesn't exist in the literature, and the only person propounding it is a Wikipedia editor, in violation of the Wikipedia:No original research policy.
Delete - Appears to be a somewhat convoluted case of synthesis involving primary sources that make this "argument". eldamorie ( talk) 19:52, 6 March 2012 (UTC) reply
The result was keep . The argument that this was a WP:SYNTH violation was a strong one, and the vague hand waving at Google results was a rather weak response. However, it seems in the end that it is possible to rectify the issues with original research and synthesis, so let's call it "keep but remove all original research." Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Essay masquerading as an article. The titular subject is synthesis from disparate primary sources. The previous AfD dates back to a more innocent period in WP's history when simply having a good number of references was sufficient to justify an article not being OR. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Argument from beauty (2nd nomination). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 20:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC) reply
The problem with just waving in the general direction of Google search results is that there are many "arguments from love" in the literature. The important thing to consider, which the Google wavers have not, is what those arguments from love are to. There's an argument from love to immortality originating with Gabriel Marcel. There's an argument from love to trinitarianism (and rejecting unitarianism) put forward by Sts Bonaventure and Augustine. Neither of those arguments are this argument, which is to the existence of God. After five years of asking, Nicholas Beale has yet to name who it is that propounds this argument.
Don't believe the "other people have edited it so it must be true" argument, by the way. Ironically, the editing by other people has been to challenge material in this article. There's reams of discussion on the talk page, and I'm sad to report that it boils down to the challengers getting tired of repeating the same question — Where in the literature is this argument propounded? — to which there has been zero response in five years, and editors getting distracted by ideas that only editors with a certain point of view may edit the article and Wikipedia editors themselves trying to determine whether the argument is valid.
I have a few more things to check before coming to a final conclusion, but at the moment I'm with Vesal. This argument — not something with this string of words as a title that a Google books search can turn up but this actual argument with the conclusion given — doesn't exist in the literature, and the only person propounding it is a Wikipedia editor, in violation of the Wikipedia:No original research policy.
Delete - Appears to be a somewhat convoluted case of synthesis involving primary sources that make this "argument". eldamorie ( talk) 19:52, 6 March 2012 (UTC) reply