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The result was keep. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Manaism[edit]

I'm not sure if this is real. Looks dubious. Alksub (talk) 21:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for having no reliable sources, appearing to have been made up one day. When google hit #1 is a stub article on Wikipedia, it's a good bet that the topic lacks notability, too. - Chardish (talk) 22:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If this is a hoax then it's a pretty elaborate one. The hoaxers must have gone to the trouble to publish 154 books and 31 scholarly articles over the last 90 years. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:48, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the sources cited by Phil Bridger. The The American Journal of Psychology article alone is quite convincing.--Kubigula (talk) 04:36, 25 February 2008 (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.

addition: the theory originates in Western Anthropology and the way we translate from forreign cultures and languages. These translation methods want to adjust to western understandings, but it is not in accord with reality. It should be rewritten using real sources or citations from Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Native American languages. illustration of argument: 1) The concept of Mana originates from stories about the Polnesian and Melanesian islands. Qi in Chinese culture is in one form inherent to all living and even non living beings and compared to subterrenean water currents in bodies; 2) they are the result of work being done with a certain level of efficiency or maybe even perfection; 3)things are prefectly appropriate, such as in the saying: "if there is dao there is qi" in the ^[1]. Therefore the article is not wrong persé and there is not a matter of hoax, but a matter of misinformation on the side of Western investigators due to language based prejudice. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Manaism&action=edit&section=1#YouLiOu — Preceding unsigned comment added by YouLiOu (talk • contribs) 07:32, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

^ Yijing