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Comment My first action ever was to remove vandalization from Mike Tomlin's page during one of the Steelers Super Bowls, this is just the first edit I had to create an account for. I was reading up on the Technology Acceptance Model when I found the link to this article. I don't actually do any research in this area but use these theories as reference theories for my Masters research in Semantic Web technologies. This theory simply isn't notable by academic standards.
Strong Keep. I see what looks like coverage in multiple sources in the reflist, and a quick search of Google Scholar reveals six more based on the terms "Lazy User Model" and "Lazy User Theory". While the number of GHits does not assert notability, there seem to be many published, (some peer-reviewed) scholarly papers which refer to the subject of this article to varying degrees. -Addionne (talk) 20:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I have added a coi tag to the article for the duration of this AfD. A major contributor is Mikc75, whose username implies he could be Mikael Collin, the writer of two of the papers used as refs in the article, and owner of two of four external links (now removed for irrelevance). That said, I do not think this affects the notability of the article - just maybe means that some of the refs used were selected over others for that reason.
Comment - It's not a BLP, so I don't think that the supposed author of one of the references editing the article is necessarily a conflict of interest. The COI guideline basically says it's okay as long as it's not used for purposes detrimental to Wikipedia. I don't really see any evidence of an edit war or POV pushing so I think it's okay. I'd personally suggest removing the COI tag. --NINTENDUDE6421:03, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Reply. I agree for the most part, however in this case, his paper is the originator of the theory... That said, I'll remove the tag, since the COI is declared here, and this looks like a pretty clear SNOW KEEP anyway. -Addionne (talk) 12:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If you search in Google Scholar for lazy user theory, you see that there are only 4 papers which come up. Only one of these has citations, and it only has two. The minimum for notability that is generally accepted in the academic community is 6. This paper hasn't had any significant impact on the academic community and the Wikipedia article was posted by the author of the original paper. If this article is kept, then any research paper should have its own Wikipedia page. Linclark (talk) 13:18, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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