Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belongingness

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. CDC  (talk)  21:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Belongingness
If anyone can make sense of this article, please explain it to the rest of us. -- Beland 07:43, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but rewrite. It's part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Eixo 07:56, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Based on Eixo's post, keep. Might I add, the fact that he has a theory on "belongingness" says very little of Maslow. Harro5 08:27, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Maslow's theory is based on a pyramid-shape hierarchy of human emotions - belongingness is on the third level and exists only when physiological and safety needs are met. Megan1967 08:53, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Belonging and expand both. AFAIK "Belongingness" isn't a word. Internodeuser 13:04, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur, mergingness. Radiant_* 08:51, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with belonging. Capitalistroadster 23:22, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Parent article cited by Eixo uses the term "Love/belonging needs" here, not "Belongingness". This article reads like it was generated by the research-paper-writing bot that was described on Slashdot.  Author was anon 129.11.76.215 .  Delete, no need to redirect this non-word.  Barno's Theory is that any sound or unsound idea can be portrayed as a pyramid shape.  Barno 23:43, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It might not be in the Wikipedia article, but Maslow used it plenty: . It's not our task here to decide on the soundness of Maslow's ideas, only their notability. Eixo 06:33, 25 May 2005 (UTC)


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