Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Behavioral Facilitation

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The result was delete. --Akhilleus (talk) 22:36, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Behavioral Facilitation

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I am doubting that this is an established academic field or therapeutical school, as the article claims. It seems to have one single protagonist (whose encylopedic notability is in doubt too, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronald Svarney). As for the references: The 2006 one obviously hasn't appeared yet ("under review"). The publisher given for the next four ("SCS Presentations" in Chicago) doesn't seem to exist. A 1994 workshop on stress management at an adult education center or a seminar talk within a graduate student program are not enough to found an entirely new academic field, they seem not to have been published in print anyway, neither . For all the books, no ISBNs are given and Amazon knows nothing by this author. This leaves the 1989 article (whose existence I didn't verify), obviously published while the author was still a student, and a talk at a statewide conference in 1994, both apparently on a very narrow topic. The 1990 article in the New York Times is really just a letter to the editor, apparently on a very different topic - the abstract on the NYT web site starts To the Editor: As a student of psychology in a world of lawyers, I am sometimes puzzled by a legal mind's description of reality. I do not understand why Robert H. Bork thinks that George Bush, in nominating Judge David H. Souter .... High on a tree 08:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, strongly. This is an article about a style of business consulting that accesses scientific principles of human behavior to solve problems and overcome impediments in achieving goals; in other words, an article promoting a specific business consultant who promises grand things, while this article describes the method in the vaguest possible terms, in a fuzz of soft-focus Latinate words. A more concrete description of what the method entails would involve giving away the product for free. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
• Uncertain It does not have to be about a new academic field, just one that is sufficiently distinct to write about and that is known outside its own circle of practitioners. Could some comments be addressed to this? DGG 01:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

But the article does claim that it is a "field". If that is wrong, I would still not object to a corrected article about the subject if there were several independent reliable sources describing it, but all we have is a string of mostly phony or unverifiable citations all by the same author, who is probably not notable himself. Btw: 0 Google hits outside Wikipedia for '"Behavioral Facilitation" svarney'. Regards, High on a tree 09:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 10:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable. Furtermore, there is only 60-70 hits for +"Behavioral Facilitation" +business -wikipedia on google [1]. On Amazon there is only one book containg both the words Behavioral and Facilitation in the title, the topic is about Autism ++ [2] -- Steve Hart 16:08, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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.