Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brown Prophecy

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 13:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brown Prophecy

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Neologism. While the statements may well have been made, there's no verification that they have been called the Brown Prophecy, or Wydner's work taken as fulfilling it, anywhere outside this article. Gordonofcartoon 13:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: see also WP:COI/N#Bruce Wydner. This appears to be one of a number of articles and edits by Dbp653 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) focused on writing Bruce Wydner into a pivotal role in machine translation history, with sourcing coming largely from Wydner himself. See comment here. Gordonofcartoon 13:27, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Borders on consipiracy with its conjectures - especially when it starts talking about top secret military transfers. One can not backup such claims with verifiable proof unless it has been declassified - which is unlikely. The rest of the article attempts to take the advent of the Internet and language translation software as a fulfillment of a rogue mormon prophecy. Wikipedia is not the place for this. --David Andreas 15:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

none of the arguments just above seem reasons for deletion. (not commenting yet on whether I'd want to keep the article)DGG 15:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:15, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I have added references that cover statements made and quoted, from 3rd party sources, please advise or edit if this article needs help. dbp653

• Delete per WP:NOTE, WP:VERIFY and WP:OR. I can't find other references to this "Brown Prophecy", the article is self-referential, and is chock-full of speculation and original research (how does one prove a prophecy has come true?). EyeSerene^TALK 13:25, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per EyeSerene's arguments as well as WP:NOP and WP:neologism. Dan Gluck 13:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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