Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kick in the Ass


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The result was Delete.  Jerry  talk ¤ count/logs 22:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Kick in the Ass

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Seems like utter nonsense from an encyclopedic perspective. Term is a neologism, certainly not some kind of official motivational method that aught to be capitalized. Referenced are basically searching for any document that uses the phrase. Zim Zala Bim talk  19:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Seems to be made up farce Doc Strange (talk) 21:37, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * There. Sigh. I took out the part of my vote that offended the article's creator. but I still think it's deletable per WP:NFT Doc Strange (talk) 20:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete; this article sounds like a joke or even patent nonsense. *** Crotalus *** 04:49, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete; it's not only just made up, it's *also* not about the Moxy Fruvous song. --FOo (talk) 18:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep; to be frank I urge people to 1) do their research and 2) do not vote delete because it has a funny name. Or have a quick read to some of these academic websites, and academic textboos . This argument it self voids the above the three delete votes. Englishrose (talk) 18:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Trivial mention of a neologism hardly seems sufficient, IMO. -- Zim Zala Bim talk  19:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It's an official theory. You are confusing something that has a name to be a neologism. Theory X workers are names, it does not mean it's a neologism. Englishrose (talk) 19:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to reiterate what I mean by official theory: it's an officially accepted (ie it's in textbooks) theory as no theorys are official.Englishrose (talk) 19:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Again, trivial mention is a random textbook doesn't make something an "officially accepted theory", and this is a neologism. See the guidelines for Reliable sources for neologisms. We must cite reliable secondary sources such as books and papers about the term&mdash;not books and papers that use the term. -- Zim Zala Bim  talk  20:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep: KITA (kick in the ass) is a concept framed by Herzberg that is usually deployed as a kind of straw man theory describing how not to deal with employees. It appears in the business literature on motivation. Do a search on google books and you'll find dozens of business motivation books that refer to KITA. One could argue that the idea might best be dealt with in a broader article on employee motivation but that is for another day. Nesbit (talk) 04:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Such as Motivation, which is also lacking in proper citations. -- Zim Zala Bim talk  14:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


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