Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chaoscopy

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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 18:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chaoscopy

Seems very much like a hoax to me per WP:HOAX. Google test supports this; if this was a real mathematical or otherwise subject, I supect it'd get more than 63 hits. (I realize the limitations of the Google test, but for this I feel it is valid evidence. Crystallina 04:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Creator notified --WikiSlasher 08:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. As the nom mentioned, this article seems to be a hoax. Even if it was real, the article in its current state is a dicdef, thus a violation of the WP:WINAD criteria.--TBCTaLk?!? 05:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Not sure if this is a hoax. The article says that this is a method, but never explains what it's a method for. eaolson 05:07, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete nonsense. Opabinia regalis 05:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Please remember that a hoax and patent nonsense are entirely two different things.--TBCTaLk?!? 07:36, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per eaolson --WikiSlasher 06:03, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - looks like a hoax, but even if it isn't, the article is nonsense. -- Ck lostsword|^queta!|_Suggestions? 17:07, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all of the above. --Nishkid64 17:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per likely WP:HOAX. While there are google hits on the term, these hits do not describe a mathematical technique. A genuine mathematical technique would include information about its purpose and use or the type of problem it attempts to solve. One doesn't just manipulate numbers for the fun of it. I also find it highly suspicious that the technique is described in terms of the types of language and activities used by a high school student. A mathematician would talk about e.g. vectors or matrices, not "columns of numbers", for example, and use more precise language than simply saying plot points and see what the result looks like. --Shirahadasha 18:19, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this bollocks, please. I doubt it's a hoax, though: it strikes me that the author actually uses this "method", and certainly some people do actually "manipulate numbers for the fun of it", so it could just be a favourite number game of the person who wrote the article...but I cannot imagine what serious application the idea could have. Chaos-copy indeed. A method for seeking the inner patterns produced by the infra-harmonic structures held by the pristine Platonic relations between a column of numbers and a copy of itself with the top whacked off. What puzzles me is that the sequence of numbers is "the time between drops"...what drops? LSD? Byrgenwulf 07:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Utter hoax. StuffOfInterest 00:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as patent nonsense. No assertion of connection with reality. Unfortunately, it's too old to speedy, methinks.--Storkk 14:18, 22 September 2006 (UTC)... isn't this a brain-damaged (jargon file sense) way to create a random walk? Not really a hoax per se.Storkk 14:21, 22 September 2006 (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.