Talk:Goal-setting theory

Douglas Vermeeren

I've removed a pile of unsourced stuff about one Douglas Vermeeren.

There was an implication here that Vermeeren is an expert of some kind. I'd never heard of him when I first encountered his name elsewhere within Wikipedia, and I therefore googled for him. Here he is. He's an expert according to his own company, but there's no indication of, say, a relevant doctorate from a fully accredited university, let alone publications in peer-reviewed psychology journals. Actually his biggest achievement seems to be having interviewed well known (?) experts (?), who themselves are all so well known that I've actually heard of one of them. Now, claiming to have developed insight by adding up anecdotal first-hand evidence from various people is the kind of thing that freshman undergraduates do, but in any decent university department that kind of nonsense is drummed out of them by the time they're sophomores.

Now, let's see something about goal-setting theory published by a university press or comparable publisher. -- Hoary (talk) 09:47, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Goal setting nominated for deletion

Please note that related article goal setting was nominated for deletion.

I found this article while trying to rework the content in goal setting. -- Pnm (talk) 04:15, 1 June 2010 (UTC)