Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lumabyte

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:05, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lumabyte

Delete. It seems to be a hoax. Srleffler 05:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. - CloudedIce 06:09, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment - It's not a hoax. Luma- is a proposed Non-SI unit prefix. I'm not sure what the best course of action is. This is a non-notable word and will almost certainly never be notable (it approaches the number of particles in the universe). Either redirect to Non-SI unit prefix or delete, I guess? -- Plutor 18:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Part of the problem is "proposed by who"? This seems to be a proposal by one guy, while others have proposed different incompatible schemes for extending the SI prefix system. This doesn't seem notable, unless one of these terms catches on and begins to be widely used. In retrospect, I probably should have identified it as "original research", which includes coining neologisms, rather than calling it a hoax. I don't think a redirect is worthwhile here, since nothing links to this page.--Srleffler 22:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Unless someone actually finds a use for this word. ManoaChild 21:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism. Besides, the original author's calculator didn't handle enough digits to get the binary version correct. --Carnildo 23:43, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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.