Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shakti mantras
As above, this is a "how to" article and Wikipedia is not a "how to" guide.  Even if it were rewritten to be more encyclopedic, it is sourced from two books which are apparently not academic sources as neither is published by an academic publishing house. One of the authors, Thomas Ashley-Farrand, appears to be a Western practitioner with no academic degree.  The Hindu author, Swami Vishnu-devananda, is probably notable due to connections with a large religious organization that has had most of its success in the Western world.  The mantras discussed in the article are not written using IAST notation so it is difficult to determine exactly what they are trying to say in Sanskrit.  Without a better representation of the Sanskrit source, independent verification of any of the mantras in  related to mantra theory is very difficult.  The article gives the impression of having been copied from one of the mantravidya "spell books" that are sold for a few pennies apiece in some Indian shops, which are notoriously unreliable when quoting sources.  Many of the mantras appear to be simple nama japa mantras (e.g. OM DUM DURGAYEI NAMAHA) in which a particular goddess is simply hailed by name, with an associated sound syllable (bija mantra) added.  It is unclear where the magical associations given to these are actually sourced
— User:Buddhipriya, 04:18, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)