Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social optimization

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The result was delete. Sandstein 10:30, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Social optimization[edit]

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Non-notable social sciences concept. Term was claimed to have been coined by Heidi Forbes Öste per her blog, and listed references are exclusively her own work. Article creator is Hcfoste, who is the sole source of substantial material on the subject and whose sole purpose here appears to be the care and feeding of this one article. --Finngall ^talk 00:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- but not for the reasons the nominator says ... well not exactly. Everything Finngall says is true. Moreover, in twenty seconds I found a different usage [1] from 1969. It will take more effort to rewrite this article than to write a new one from scratch. Rhadow (talk) 00:44, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. --Finngall ^talk 01:27, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per Wikipedia:No original research It utterly fails WP:GNG, and if we ignore all sources written by the promoter of this term (and the single purpose account creator who I assume is one and the same) this is an completely unreferenced article. No coverage in independant third party sources, and all Google searches for '"social optimization" -Öste' seem to relate to social media optimization. Clearly not the same topic, so no redirect is needed. Snow delete, really.Nick Moyes (talk) 00:31, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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