Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ivan Goldberg


 * 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 of the debate was delete.  howch e  ng   {chat} 21:10, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Ivan Goldberg
This doctor's only claim to fame is that he "coined" the term "internet addiction disorder" in 1997. This is mentioned on the Internet addiction article, and that is the only place on Wikipedia this individual should be mentioned. If you or I were to create a neoglism (or whatever it's called), no one would care. This doctor doesn't deserve his own article any more than any doctor you could find in the yellow pages. Captain Jackson 05:09, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If he were to get IAD into DSM-V as a recognized mental disorder, that IMHO would make him encyclopedic... but that hasn't happened yet, so I agree with you.


 * Delete per nom. KillerChihuahua?!? 09:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Segv11 (talk/contribs) 09:49, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep 20k google hits, seems fairly notable -- Astrokey44 |talk 13:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Assuming I'm using my library's database correctly, the only listings for Ivan Goldberg in Who's Who are Ivan D. Goldberg, a microbiologist on the faculty of the University of Kansas medical school; Ivan Goldberg, an ophthalmologist with a practice in Sydney, Australia; and Ivan Baer Goldberg, a real estate executive in Newport News, Virginia. My vote is delete, but if not deleted this should be a redirect to Internet addiction disorder. Note that the latter article states that IAD is not currently in DSM-V. Until it is in DSM-V, his coinage of the term is not a very significant accomplishment. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment 20,000 hits on a search engine isn't very much, and how can we even know they're all for this guy? I don't know how any one person can be given credit for creating the term "Internet addiction;" I'm pretty sure about one million people each came up with it at the same time. Captain Jackson 19:26, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as author and for having coined IAD. -- JJay 02:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


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