Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corporate Personality Disorder


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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 02:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Corporate Personality Disorder

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I prodded this with "Possible WP:COI based on editor name; most google hits seem to be referring to "Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder, not this concept". It has since been edited and prod removed by an IP which has only edited this and Corporate personality (adding edits to that page that discuss this topic, though it seems to be an unrelated concept) but the edits don't make anything clearer; it spends more time on how much research the concept originator has done than on the concept itself, claims both that it "is a human disability" and "a condition of organizational behavior", and has no references. Jamoche 13:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Also, the article appears to be WP:OR and suffers from WP:COI. --Evb-wiki 16:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete per lack of sources about this "condition" Corpx 18:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

NOTE: Please note that Corporate Personality Disorder is NOT a "human disability" (that was NOT my edit). It is in fact what I stated, "a condition of organizational behavior," and the definition I provided is based on the psychiatric clinical definition used by psychologists and psychiatrists in definining human personality disorders. The one and only definitive and scientifically valid reference for this condition is in fact my non-fiction book of the same name which has over 200 academic references in the bibliography that I am pleased to submit if you wish. Frankly, and with great respect, I am left wondering how a software engineer is making a determination of the merit and originality of a clinical term that draws from a large body of human research study.

...oh...and one more thing. The short article on Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder has NO references, no definition of the condition, and was basically one throw-away line in their article about corporate crime.

Respectfully,

Dr. Eli Sopow
 * Feel free to nominate the other article for deletion, then. --Jamoche 04:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe he is referring to the "article by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman (2004)", not a Wikipedia article. --Evb-wiki 11:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Speaking as an non-expert, I see no uses of the term in Google Scholar, or in Web of Science, nor any academic publications listed in either by the proponent of the theory, except a MA thesis and a Ph.D thesis. So as a non-expert, I don't see what an expert would even have to evaluate. The book may refer to other work, but no other work refers to the book. That's the definition on non-notable. DGG (talk) 02:20, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, Evb-wiki, DGG and Corpx. Bearian 18:57, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment perhaps this article was meant for this site -> and was place here by accident :-) --Chicaneo 19:29, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


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