Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SCIgen

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The result of the debate was keep. Mackensen (talk) 23:30, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SCIgen

Short article on a piece of software which generates nonsense, which got minor media notice last month for generating a paper which was accepted by a CS conference. Not notable enough to have any links to it, hard to see how it could expand any more. Could redirect to an article on the hoax, if there were one. Eliot 20:06, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - comes up a lot on the web. -- BD2412 ^talk 03:18, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

SCIgen was written to hoax the organisers of SCI World MultiConference on Systemics, Cybernetics. This conference has been criticised Justin Zobel. The claim for 50% acceptance appears to be solely on the experience with the authors experience in submitting two papers to this one conference Stribling et al.

• Keep provided it is edited to put it in context DAHordle
• Keep a new about that appears on Scientific American, June 2005 (Spanish edition, Barcelona). Pèrez 2 July 2005 07:25 (UTC) Post Scriptum: That might be an example as someone can vandalize an Scientific project.

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