Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morphological retail analysis


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:12, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Morphological retail analysis

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Article about a very specialistic topic that, AFAICT, is based on a single source, which is a research paper with 25 citations on GScholar. I don't deem that enough to establish notability of a scientific concept. GScholar does not give any hits for the query "Morphological retail analysis" (including quotes), so there's a hint of OR as well. Q VVERTYVS (hm?) 11:20, 5 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. The article provides 2 'References' in a sketchy sort of way. Baray and Cliquet 2007 actually has the title (not supplied in the article) Delineating store trade areas through morphological analysis. and is pages 886-898 of Vol 182, No 2, October 2007 of the European Journal of Operational Research, should anyone be curious. The article is not, therefore, entirely made up, but this is a single source. The other Reference is Serra 1982, Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology, which is not about Retail at all. To confuse matters, two more, "Ghosh and McLafferty 1987" and "Huff 1964" are mentioned in the paper, but references are not supplied. The first seems to be "Location Strategies for Retail and Service Firms", published by Rowman and Littlefield. It is not about morphology. The other may well be Darrell Huff's 1964 "Cycles in Your Life—The Rhythms of War, Wealth, Nature, and Human Behavior. Or Patterns in War, Wealth, Weather, Women, Men, and Nature", published by Norton. It isn't about morphology either, though like the Ghosh and Serra references, it clearly contains ideas which contributed to the idea of using morphology to analyse retail. I think, therefore, that this article is a) basically single-sourced; b) largely WP:OR and therefore c) to be deleted unless sources can be found. This seems unlikely as a google search only turns up clutter apart from the one Baray and Cliquet paper. I conclude, in the absence of specialised knowledge, that this is not yet a notable topic. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:09, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 14:51, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e deckertalk 14:50, 21 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete A bit of search also turned up Competitive Arena Mapping: Market Innovation Using Morphological Analysis in Business Markets and Morphological Analysis as a Planning-Tool for Retail Developments in Downtown Shopping Districts. The approaches all seem to be about using morphological analysis to perform segmentation of a constructed retail landscape image to determine regions of influence of retail outlets. It is one aspect of urban morphology. But as with Chiswick Chap, all I see are a few primary sources for the topic. Without multiple independent RS, the topic seems to fail WP:GNG. May be worth a mention in urban morphology. --Mark viking (talk) 18:45, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
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