Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Expectancy violations theory

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The result of the debate was no consensus, except that it needs cleaning up. · Katefan0^(scribble) 19:26, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Expectancy violations theory

Not really sure what this is. Somebody's thesis? It has a name attached to it on the first line. Zoe 07:53, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep but rewrite. It's a theory from 1978 and seems legit. It looks a bit cut and paste but I can't find it. CambridgeBayWeather 07:59, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - it's still being edited right now. As it's not clear to me at the moment whether this is a personal thesis or a Wikipedia article, I've put a note on user's talk page asking for clarification. --Finbarr Saunders 08:22, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Since when is "it's still being edited" a valid keep criterion? All articles are "still being edited." Zoe 08:27, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
    • ...and you're right, of course. Actually, I had meant to echo CambridgeBayWeather's reason for a "keep", but then I noticed it was being actively rewritten so I wanted us to wait a bit. But I should have stated that my criterion for a keep is that it does appear to be legitimate basis for an article. --Finbarr Saunders 08:40, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Moderate delete, the theory gets 385 Google hits, the author gets 28; no results for either on JSTOR. Paul 16:19, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi,
Yes, I'm editing right now. I'm a complete noob and don't know how to message you back Finbar, but I figured this bit out now.
I've never contributed anything before, but turn to Wikipedia for info all the time.
I'm doing a University assignment on Expectancy Violations Theory (and Interpersonal Deception Theory) and so searched for this topic. Unfortunately my assignment is a Powerpoint presentation so it isn't presented all that nicely, but since I looked here I thought maybe others would too.
Any advice?
Please do not bite the newcomers! :-)

Hi, whoever you are (the author of the article under discussion?), you can and should sign your comments on talk pages and a VfD page (this page is an example of a VfD page) using four tildes. Are you saying that you are a student at the University of Arizona and that your instructor in a communications class assigned you to create a Wikipedia article? I think that would be rather irresonsible, unless perhaps that instructor is an experienced Wikipedia user and was checking to make sure that any articles created as a result of his assignment are up to standard. Any chance you could ask your instructor to comment? I'd like to hear his/her rationale for this alleged homework assignment.

By the way, the article mentions "communication theory", but appears to concern a nonsense "theory" having nothing whatever to do with communication theory in the sense of Claude Shannon.---CH (talk) 17:44, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

• Have added welcome note to 203.45.200.5's talk page. Could "203.45.200.5" please indicate whether this is indeed intended to be a Wikipedia article as well as a personal university assignment? I think there is a Wikipedia rule that says you are not allowed to use Wikipedia for personal things. If this is just a personal university assignment, then I think the current content should be removed. --Finbarr Saunders 08:56, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know what a talk page is. I thought it may be useful to someone to share what I had learned on this theory seeing as I would have found it useful. Why the hell would I post a 'personal university assignment' otherwise? Maybe I have the concept of Wikipedia wrong. Whatever.

• A couple of apologies:

1. A talk page is the same as a discussion page. Most Wikipedia pages have a "Discussion" link at the top. (Don't ask me why there are two names for the same thing!) When I first posted that "You have new messages" alert, that took you to your own talk page.
2. I wrongly assumed from your earlier reply "I'm doing a University assignment on..." that you were using Wikipedia as a free web storage area (because some people do that, unfortunately). I see now that you actually want to add to this encyclopaedia. Sorry! and I'll let you get on with your first Wikipedia article. --Finbarr Saunders 12:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

• Comment seems to be a topic in this book, though its abysmal Amazon sales rank doesn't give confidence. —Wahoofive (talk) 16:28, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as not-an-article unless it is substantially improved within the lifetime of this AfD. If it is, would some kind sould please prod my talk page? -Splash 23:34, 4 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.