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Hey Lapabc,

I saw that you had once made a stab at finding a "fair-and-balanced" (to steal a phrase from Fox News) way of documenting some of the controversy surrounding the Center for Science in the Public Interest. I recently made a venture into same (with much trepidition after having seen what happened to all the previous attempts), but we've seemingly started to get a section that has some consensus support behind it, and I would love to know what you think. There's an active discussion on the talk page, so you can weigh in with any thoughts there.

Thanks, Rnickel (talk) 19:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neuroleadership

Hi -- you need to complete the process of nominating the article for deletion, as explained in the template that now appears at the top of the article. I basically agree with you that the article should be deleted, but there is no way for me to say so until you create the deletion debate, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neuroleadership. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 00:56, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi back -- I was diverted but eventually completed the deletion debate setup. I've never gone through this deletion business before and I'm concerned about something I noticed so I'm curious what you might say. First, this "NeuroLeadership" is pure 21st century hucksterism in which an individual, David Rock, is trying to use Wikipedia to legitimize and promote his executive coaching business but is not a legitimate new area of scholarly study as claimed by Rock and his associates in the "NeuroLeadership Institute" that he founded... I say this as someone with a background in neuroscience (PhD, 1999) and in management (MBA, 2013)... and you're apparently a neuroscientist so you know that people try to slap the label "neuro" onto lots of nonsense to make it seem more scientific. Anyway, Wikipedia policy on neologisms is that they are commonly deleted since articles are often created in an attempt to use Wikipedia to increase usage of the term and it's reasonably clear that's what's going on here. But my concern is that this page is being protected. From the history, I can see two attempts to delete it. One was cleared by a user (not administrator) Northamerica1000 who seems gets involved in lots and lots of deletion nominations but user page shows that he ended them by "Non-administrator closure" and all of them were keeps, none were deleted. So anyone can close a delete request? Not just an administrator?... and by the way, why didn't you nominate it for deletion? Lapabc (talk) 06:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Quite honestly, Wikipedia is full of low quality articles, and if I declared war on them, I would spend all my time being angry and never accomplish anything positive -- so when I run into resistance trying to get rid of one, unless it is really terrible I usually leave it alone. Regarding this specific issue, there are two ways of proposing an article for deletion. The simplest is "proposed deletion" (see WP:PROD), but that can be removed by any editor for any reason. The more complex is AfD, which you did here. An AfD nomination can in principle be closed by non-admins, but in practice an editor who does it in the absence of a completely clear consensus is going to face a lot of kickback -- doing that more than a couple of times will result in the editor being banned from it. Looie496 (talk) 15:39, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looie, I made a long reply to I,Jethrobot after he posted a reply to your vote to delete. I'm going to stop at this point, I've got bigger fish to fry as do you, but I thought I'd give you an FYI. Lapabc (talk) 22:31, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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