Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coordinated management of meaning


 * 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. (non-admin closure) sst✈  16:04, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Coordinated management of meaning

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I think this article is WP:OR, it reads as a personal essay on the subject. I say I think because a lot of it is remisicent of Sokal, and is borderline incomprehensible. Guy (Help!) 11:56, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * AfD is not a cleanup . - üser:Altenmann >t 16:05, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. North America1000 12:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:36, 7 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep This is a real theory of communication in sociolinguistics, created in the 1980s, and the article and a WP:BEFORE style search turn up lots of reliable sources; about 1600 hits in GScholar and over 5,000 hits in GBooks. As a theory of communication, it is in the social constructionism school of thought. While not as well known as say symbolic interactionism, it turns up in courses and textbooks. The article itself has some promotional sections, particularly Coordinated management of meaning, as well as some essay-like prose, but cleaning these up is a matter of editing, not whole article deletion. A notable topic and an article with WP:SURMOUNTABLE problems suggests keeping the article. --Mark viking (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep The writing needs editing, but the concepts seem accurate if basic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.155.147.77 (talk) 08:20, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


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