Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Self-talk Identification, Questioning & Revision (SIQR)


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:03, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Self-talk Identification, Questioning & Revision (SIQR)

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Hopeless confussed essay, advocated a theoretical program of some sort. The references are very general. If anyone claims to understand it well enough to make an encyclopedia  article out of it, I'll withdraw the AfD.  DGG ( talk ) 00:39, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 05:51, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm fairly convinced that that's impossible.  wrote this article, and that also happens to be the electronic mail address of Rodger Garrett, the inventor of this claimed therapy.  (See Talk:Alcoholics Anonymous/Archive 2.)  Another of M. Garrett's pseudonyms is "SighKoBlahGrr", and as that xe is all over the WWW with this invention.  But, when all of the web-logs, Amazon book reviews, and so forth are removed, there's nothing.  There's no peer-reviewed published medical literature.  There isn't even anything informal.  There's no evidence that all of the self-promotion has paid off in any way.  There's no evidence that anyone at all has acknowledged this idea let alone documented it independently.  This is one person's idea that hasn't yet escaped its creator to become a part of the general corpus of human knowledge.  It is thus original research. I note for completeness why I didn't bother checking what is cited on the list of references.  I am familiar with some of the works listed, and they most definitely do not document an invention by one Rodger Garrett.  I took it that therefore none of the others did, either, and that this wasn't a proper reference list as one would expect in an encyclopaedia.  (The text of the article indicates this, too.)  I did, however, do some literature searches. Uncle G (talk) 18:02, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 22 May 2012 (UTC)




 * Weak Delete · I say "Weak" because I'm not familiar with this field, but I tried looking in several of the specialized search engines offered by search for with the terms "siqr garrett" and found nothing related to the topic of the article, which seems highly unlikely if this were a genuine scientific or therapeutic topic that met the standards for Wikipedia notability. -- ▸∮ truthious ᛔ andersnatch ◂ 04:55, 22 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete as failing WP:No original research and WP:NEO. It's surprising how many different meanings there are for "SIQR"; but I do not find the necessary substantial, independent comment about this one. Google Books shows Self-Talk Identification, Questioning & Revision (Siqr) by "Blossom Meghan Jessalyn" published by Sess Press, but according to VDM Publishing this is one of 78 Mauritian imprints devoted to republishing Wikipedia articles, and Ms Jessalyn alone is credited with 610. It would be interesting to know how she spun this article out to 128 pages. JohnCD (talk) 20:14, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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