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Cognitive Information Processing

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This appears to have slumbered peacefully in its orphan reclusion for several years now, but it's actually a somewhat surprising usurpation. The article is not about cognitive information processing (whatever the particulars of that may be) at all, it is about a particular application developed in one work group. The references are a beautiful walled garden: the same three names in rotation. And from my searches, this group's output is the entirety of coverage that approach has gotten so far. Assuming that there is a general subject such as cognitive information processing (and there seems to be), we don't have an article on that at the moment; we have a work group's private progress report on their application method.

I suggest redirecting to Cognitive science or a more suitable candidate until someome writes an article about the actual topic. Eeven if consensus should be that the current content is actually notable, it should at least be renamed to Cognitive information processing approach to career development and services and Cognitive Information Processing should be redirected, so that readers don't get the impression that this is what is meant by the term. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:37, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to think that the material is notable. Career Choice and Development references the work of the Florida State group both in the bibliography and again in running text. The author, Duane Brown, is professor of education at the University of North Carolina and appears to be independent of the Florida State group. Likewise, Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling discusses the approach in detail. Peterson (one of the Florida State authors) is named as a central figure and the book author again appears to be independent (his affiliation is given as the University of Delaware). On that basis, I say keep. I think Elmidae's suggested rename is awful, and one can understand why the article author abbreviated it, but for the sake of clarity, it needs to be done – I don't have a better suggestion. SpinningSpark 21:18, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 01:27, 4 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]