Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abundance mentality

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The result was merge to optimism. MBisanz ^talk 09:50, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Abundance mentality[edit]

Delete Appears to be a dictionary entry.--Levalley (talk) 00:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC)LeValley[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into optimism seems like a plausible alternative to deletion to me. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
~~If I were a suspicious person, I might think that the only purpose of the article was to provide a link to Penny Tremblay's website. Delete, spam.~~ SpinningSpark 14:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - @SS, I removed Ms. Tremblay's website as an unreliable source, so at least that's not a concern anymore. There do seem to be a lot of references in the business buzzword press, and it may be linked to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I'll add a couple references. May still qualify for a merge somewhere based on WP:NOT#DICTIONARY. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 15:09, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk 15:47, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fritzpoll (talk) 13:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Seems like just another example of made-up consultant-speak. If it's part of a specific program (7 habits?), then it should be mentioned there, perhaps with a redirect. If it's not part of a specific program, we need some kind of expansion beyond the dictionary definition, provided it's even notable enough. Matt Deres (talk) 02:46, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The term appears frequently on the web and in business and self-help books. It is a key term in The Eighth Habit by Seven Habits author S. Covey. Current references include allusion to Seven Habits and work by Covey. Cnilep (talk) 17:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

is there any evidence that such is the origin of the term? Otherwise, if he just used it, its not an appropriate merge. DGG (talk) 13:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The earliest print usage I can find is in the book What Matters Most (2000) written by Hyrum Smith and published by FranklinCovey. FranklinCovey is also the publisher of Seven Habits (1989) and The Eighth Habit (2004), and was co-founded by Smith and Covey. The term appears to have been coined by some combination Smith, Covey and their associates. Cnilep (talk) 17:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have an earlier one, Carolyn Simpson in High Performance through Negotiation, 1996 devotes an entire chapter to it. The Seven Habits book mentioned above covers it, and that is 1990 (Simon & Schuster, it may originally have been self-published, but is far from it now). Google books gets 362 hits for the term, nearly all relevant, and mostly not Smith/Covey. I think that is quite a lot and there are also some hits on Google Scholar. On the strength of that, I am switching to keep. SpinningSpark 19:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.