Deletion of Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Comment: totally meets . AfD is not for cleanup
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Xicanx, is a relatively new Wikipedia editor, only active since 2019. He/she is passionate about this topic and this is reflected in the article. I agree that the article in its current state is an argumentative essay, and it reminds me of New Age ideas. However, the cited sources indicate that the subject of the article is still a notable subject, and that there is room for improvement.  never really works. In practice, it deletes articles without the creation of replacements
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)

Comment: I saw this a while ago and am glad it got wide scrutiny now. CorbieVreccan nailed it when they said, {{tq|While the phrase is established in academia, and thus results in many hits on google and in google scholar, the phrase is being used in differing ways, often by non-Indigenous people, to teach classes and author papers that are often offensive and insulting in their noble savage and anti-intellectual generalizations about tens of thousands of cultures, the world over.}} At best, it needs TNT, but I'd argue more for deletion per . Not every idea churned out somewhere in academia is actually a mainstream NPOV topic in the relevant field of scholarship
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Fringe theories (WP:FRINGE)

Comment: Strong keep,''' possibly speedy per #3: This nomination simply has nothing to do with -REASON|page deletion policy at all. The nomination describes reasons that someone might template a page, but absolutely zero indication is given as to why this page should be deleted. This topic is a massively obvious  pass, with no reason to believe that it meets any other deletion criteria. In addition to the literally dozens of sources on the page, "indigenous ways of knowing" is the topic of entire university classes (e.g. https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/abed101/indigenous-ways-of-knowing/ 1 https://www.queensu.ca/indigenous/ways-knowing 2, https://aese.psu.edu/undergraduate/resources/study-abroad/ojibwe 3, etc.), research articles with hundreds or thousands of citations (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2156045/ 1, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03014220909510568 2, https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2006.093641 3, and the other https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,23&q=%22indigenous+ways+of+knowing%22 12,297 results for this search string on google scholar), books by major publishing houses and academic presses (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030331764 1, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/climate-change-indigenous-ways-knowing-indigenous-ways-knowing-new-models-fikret-berkes/10.4324/9780203123843-15 2, http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/file/e4c19d92-26de-417f-8352-24225aec19a4/1/Knowing-Home-Braiding-Indigenous-Science-with-Western-Science-Book-1-1484769041.html 3), and I could easily go on. There is just no serious discussion at all to be had here
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Speedy keep (WP:CSK||WP:DEL||WP:GNG)

Comment: I find the arguments above based on // compelling, independent from how important it may be to understand and document non-western cultural ideas, how notable the general topic of studying non-western cultural bases may be, or how troubling we may find the exoticism, othering, essentialism, or failure to distinguish the diversity of multiple cultures apparent in this article's view of the subject
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYNTH||WP:NOTESSAY||WP:TNT)

Comment: Per . The current article reads like an essay, and is North America centric, as is typical with discussions on "indigenous people" (a term rarely used outside a western settler colonialism context). I do think that the term probably should redirect somewhere, but I am unsure where
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)