Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alpher-Bethe-Gamow Paper

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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 replace with the article at Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory. – Alphax τεχ 07:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alpher-Bethe-Gamow Paper

Delete as joke...and a poor one at that. Eddie.willers 03:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep The article needs work, but it's a legitimate piece of physics folklore/history. Choess 03:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination -- NSLE (Communicate!) <Contribs> 09:52, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Seminal paper on primordial nucleosynthesis, and generally referred to under the name. Pilatus 10:26, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Choess. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 11:21, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep as genuine paper on the synthesis of matter in the very young universe. Pun was just a bad joke by George Gamow. I have explicitly added this to the article. Sliggy 12:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep per Choess - real-life occasionally comes up with jokes too Sam Vimes 13:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Famous enough for The Economist to mention it in Bethe's obit. The incident actually inspired Bethe to work on elaborating the theory. Perodicticus 13:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Well-known landmark work in cosmology. -- Decumanus 14:02, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge to Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory Dlyons493 Talk 16:50, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
    • This is a tricky one, in fact. The paper is known as the "αβγ paper"; the concept put forth in it is called "Big Bang nucleosynthesis" or "primordial nucleosynthesis". The article at Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory is much better, though. Move Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory to Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, maybe. Pilatus 17:12, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Comment That's certainly an option! Dlyons493 Talk 20:49, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I have only ever heard/read this referred to as the "αβγ paper". I think a move Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory to Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper as per Pilatus would be best. Sliggy 15:37, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep/Merge per Choess. - Sensor 23:21, 21 October 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.