Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neo-Advaita
Basically, the issue is what name to give to the Wikipedia article. What is going on is you have is thousand year old Advaita Vedanta religion (traditional Advaita Vedanta in India with three requirements (1. reading, 2. renunciation, and 3. meditation experience) and 100 year old Neo-Advaita religion (Advaita Vedanta lite in the west which focuses on 3. meditation experience). Advaita Vedanta lite practicers would claim that they are practicing traditional Advaita Vedanta whereas traditional Advaita Vedanta's would say Advaita Vedanta lite in the west is not Advaita Vedanta because they don't do as much 1) reading and 2) renunciation as traditional Advaita Vedanta in India. Traditional Advaita Vedanta then want to call Advaita Vedanta lite in the west "Neo-Advaita" whereas Advaita Vedanta lite practitioners would want to refer to their practice as Advaita Vedanta, which is where Wikipedia comes in. Both traditional Advaita Vedanta and Advaita Vedanta lite are two separate topics that each meet . The disputes would be 1. what to call the Advaita Vedanta lite article and 2. what information makes up Advaita Vedanta lite topic to include in the Advaita Vedanta lite/Neo-Advaita article. AfD isn't set up to address either and those are different issues from that decided at AfD. I don't think there any pro-Neo-Advaita editors writing in Wikipedia, so the Neo-Advaita article is more negative due to Wikipedia participation by traditional Advaita Vedanta editors but there is no actual dispute between Wikipedia editors. The Neo-Advaita article seem to include an effort to "prove" Neo-Advaita is the name of the western version of Advaita Vedanta, which is original research. There are some source material using Neo-Advaita and the 100 year old Neo-Advaita religion is a topic that meets , so it seems reasonable to use "Neo-Advaita" for now until something better comes along. In short, keep Neo-Advaita at AfD and any disputes in the future can be handled some place besides AfD
— User:Uzma, 18:30, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)