Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teacher in role (2nd nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep, cleanup and remove OR -- Samir 03:54, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Teacher in role

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NN term. Only 14k ghits Computerjoe's talk 16:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Not NN. More OR etc. Computerjoe's talk 14:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete- Changed mind, due to the reasons below. Eaomatrix 19:33, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete not because of notability, but because the article is an original essay about teaching. See Wikipedia:No original research. NawlinWiki 17:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - original essay, as Nawlinwiki says. Spammy about this new method. 64.178.96.168 19:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep Unfortunately, this kind of nonsense is being taught in college education programs. I left a note on the Education project page a week or so ago asking them to look at it for possible cleanup, no response. If you look at the history and read the lengthy example I deleted you will see why my daughter went to a conservative private school, I'm not against innovation nor am I a conservative, but this is waaaay too out there for me. As penance for past deletional sins I have rewritten the first para and found adequate refs for this. I'll work on it more a little later.--killing sparrows ^(chirp!) 20:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep - I see 14,000-plus Google hits for this, and it seems to be a relatively accepted thing - but the article desperately needs sourcing. (Note also that it went through a VFD back in 2005; comments from the VFD are listed on the talk page. I can't track down the original discussion, though.) Tony Fox (arf!) 20:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep as the general concept is notable, for better or worse. When I've taught practical subjects, it can be a useful technique occasionally--if I pretend to be a patron approaching a reference desk, I suppose it's teacher in role, though I never thought of it with those words. And there's nothing to show whether this is the commonly used term for it.DGG 05:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: seems to be pretty much the same as Role-play, best case redirect. Ohconfucius 09:34, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Comment, The Role-play article has very little on use in education but I would support a merge and redirect with this info used as a section, 'Teacher in role', to expand the use of role-play in education. There are some pretty good refs for this concept.--killing sparrows ^(chirp!) 16:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Very weak keep, pending complete re-write. Its hard to tell at this juncture, since I am not at all familiar with the term and the article is written a) like original research and b) with no context for the layman. Would also support merge to Role-play per User:Killing sparrows. Jdcooper 17:44, 6 May 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.