Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scienticity

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:20, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scienticity

I checked this out and found that there are a good few hits for scienticity, but the majority of them make no mention of Donald Black, and those which do are mainly publicising him and his lectures and publications. I can't make out whether this is vanity masquerading as science, a genuine article which exaggerates the importance of one person, or genuine. The anonymous user Special:Contributions/24.75.97.69 has contributed to only two articles, this and Social space which also claims to have been originated by Donald Black, which article also credits him with having "invented" several concepts which, to my untutored eye, look to have been around for a long time. His web page at the university where he teaches does not make such claims. This article reads to me like original research, but I really can't make up my mind whether I am just being over-sceptical because of the gratingly effusive style of the various Black articles. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 12:47, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete as delusions of grandeur, otherwise known as original research. Anville 15:14, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom and Anville... DoG as syn for OR... heh. KillerChihuahua 15:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete OR. Edwardian 00:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. Saikiri 08:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
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