Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Retail therapy


 * 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 Keep Redwolf24  (talk) 07:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Retail therapy
Slang. Merge/redirect to compulsive behavior? Neutralitytalk 04:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge not redirect to compulsion as its own subsection. Keep. as per Capitalistroadster. --LBMixPro&lt;Sp e ak 04:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)  08:21, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - neutrality has totally misunderstood this. It relates to the use of shopping (usually satirically) as therapy, not to a compulsion to shop. For great justice. 05:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Requires citations and/or references in order to be useful to a researcher.  (aeropagitica)    (talk)   06:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep and reference. With a Google search for "retail therapy" coming up with 1,300,000 hits with the first returns from Forbes, the Guardian and the Melbourne Age, this is both notable and has verifiable sources. Capitalistroadster 06:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I have started adding references to the articles. It still needs further expansion but it is a start. Capitalistroadster 09:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as per User:Capitalistroadster, well-known, even infamous, term--A Y Arktos\talk 11:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Roadster. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 15:30, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep widely used term. Keep it factual and referenced, well worth an article. Just zis Guy you know? 15:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as per User:Capitalistroadster MikesPlant 13:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as per User:JzG --TH 22:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep but is the intro POV? "improving" is stated but the first referenced title is "Shopping can make you depressed" -- User:Electric Eye  ( talk ) 08:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.