Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social and emotional issues in the lives of gifted students

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was merge and redirect. ugen 64 06:44, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Social and emotional issues in the lives of gifted students
Unencyclopedic essay--nixie 05:16, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Tough call. Well-researched, but ultimately, it's probably better off as a subsection of an existing article somewhere than on its own.  Merge if there is an appropriate place to put it (I can't think of anything), otherwise delete. Slac  speak up!  05:26, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with Lacrimosus. I think parts of this could be merged with gifted education, or whatever the article on that topic is called. Meelar (talk) 05:28, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Different from gifted education. But rename to something less unweildy. -- 8^D gab 07:29, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
 * Delete article, merge some information as follows. This is an article on Isolation, Perfectionism, Underachievement, and Depression. These qualities are not unique to "gifted students". Merge any useful information into the pages for these four conditions, but "Social and emotional issues in the lives of gifted students" is unencyclopedic original research with at touch of POV. I can't think of any truly encyclopedic articles with ten word titles, actually. Perhaps this could become a rule of thumb, nothing over 8 word titles or something.Halidecyphon 08:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Strongly disagree with Halidecyphon. This is a real issue, which has different origins and consequences for gifted children than for others. However, the title is awkward, and I see no reason for keeping it separate from the entry on gifted individuals. Thus, Merge with gifted (and don't merge this with gifted education). Martg76 15:38, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge information where possible, otherwise delete. This amounts to original research.  If some of the factual information can be usefully merged into other articles then by all means let's do it, but the article itself should be deleted. Arkyan 19:51, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. Beautiful article, if only the rest of Wikipedia could read like this. However, its 'discussion' format needs to be rewritten, and I believe it would be more useful as part of the gifted article. (although since a merge has been suggested, it's really academic where it's merged now). --InShaneee 19:57, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Gifted &mdash;Wahoofive | Talk 01:55, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with the Gifted article. I loved reading this article. The way the author analyzed different emotions was splendid. However, it does not merit its own article and in order to keep this database comprehensive, merge. - NeevaN 02:30, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Point of view, possibly original research. Hedley 16:59, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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