Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scientific Computation

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The result of the debate was delete. --Tony SidawayTalk 22:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scientific Computation

Neologism. The first paragraph of the article says:

"Scientific computation is a term often confused with scientific computing. Often, the terms are used interchangeably. [...] Scientific computation, if the term ever becomes widespread, seems like a natural outgrowth of it."

This confirms my experience that there is in fact no difference between the terms scientific computation and scientific computing. It seems the author wants to introduce a distinction, but this should not be included in Wikipedia until it is a bit more widespread. I warned the author to include references on User talk:Cat2020 and here, but to no avail. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:01, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete. OR and POV fork. The author appears to be creating a distinction that does not currently exist. Require objective citations. ManoaChild 23:02, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Ranting. Oleg Alexandrov 01:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Neologism. Paul August ☎ 01:42, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. No useful content that is not already in scientific computing. Gandalf61 09:40, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Original research/Neologism. --DrTorstenHenning 13:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to scientific computing
  • Delete. Neologism. (Disagree with redirect, if anyone cares.) -- Arthur Rubin 20:05, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep seems notable. Lots of work on optimizing algorithm's for doing scientific/statistical calculations. Klonimus 03:45, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't quite understand your comment. I agree that scientific computation is a notable area and that lots of important work is done in that context. My problem with the article under discussion is that this area is already described in Scientific computing, and that article under discussion (Scientific Computation) is about a distinction between "scientific computing" and "scientific computation" which does not exist. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:01, 26 August 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.