Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deautomatization

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 delete. Deautomatization is "a disturbance of the spatial, temporal, speed, and power parameters of movement in man". Ooooo-kay. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deautomatization

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In dispute to the proposed deletion, the writer of the article requested to "check Google Books". Having done so (before prod, as standard practice), I still do not see a future for this article. While Google Books provides an initially impressive-looking number of hits ([1]), the term is generally mentioned very briefly and in passing by those books which use it, and those tend to disagree on what it means (one finds everything from New Age-style "mystical" use to what appears to be a term of convenience to describe a postulated psychological phenomenon). I can find nothing to indicate that this term has any particular significance in either the New Age/neopagan movements or in psychology, but rather stems from a 1959 fringe-ish psychological hypothesis that never gained much traction. Brief blurbs and passing mentions, even a lot of them, are not sufficient to sustain an article, and I can find no in-depth studies of the hypothesis. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 08:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:03, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:03, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 09:48, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The paper by Arthur J Deikman, "De-automatization and the mystic experience", where deautomatization is defined as "reinvesting actions and percepts with attention," has been cited in 333 articles indexed by Google scholar, including works by prominent researchers worldwide, rather than just by the original author and his students as one typically finds in some walled-garden niche concept in psychology. Edison (talk) 00:08, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This seems to be original research and thus the term has no relevance outside the context of one piece of writing, no need for Wikipedia to define it; seems only promotional here. kashmiri (talk) 16:12, 1 January 2012 (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.