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The result was keep. Sandstein 06:44, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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No indication that this is a real thing beyond the fan blogs and amateur studies cited. No notable coverage in any RS I can find. The page is a total mess of OR and likely self sourced bumpf Unbh (talk) 16:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Military. Unbh (talk) 16:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I clicked the Google Scholar link and found plenty of academic papers about hoplology. Then, I clicked the Google Books link and discovered Towards a Theatrical Hoplology: An Approach to Staging, Performance, and Critical Theory for Weapons-play in the Theatre, published by the University of Missouri - Columbia. This is clearly a notable topic. Cullen328 (talk) 19:08, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: WP:BEFORE (WEB) returns the lede definition, and multiple articles on martial arts and human combative behaviour. WP:BEFORE (books) returns a similar result, titles on deconstructing martial arts, stage defence and the titles mentioned above. Not bumpf. --Whiteguru (talk) 07:25, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Plenty of sources, as shown by Cullen328 above. The article needs lots of work though. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 18:47, 18 April 2022 (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.