Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zhou conjecture

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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 was Delete --JForget 00:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zhou conjecture

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Non-notable and highly-likely-to-be-incorrect conjecture by a non-notable mathematician, Zhou Haizhong, whose article I am separately nominating for deletion. A previous version of the biography was successfully prodded, and at the same time the material now in this article was added but then removed by community consensus from Mersenne conjectures, an article about some more notable conjectures on the same general topic (the distribution of Mersenne primes). Rather than try another prod, I thought it would be best to go straight to an AfD. David Eppstein (talk) 04:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep. I did a quick Google search and a few third-party scholarly sources came up (see this and this. I think the article needs to be expanded a bit to explain it more for non-mathemeticians. Renee (talk) 05:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I've added two new scholarly references to the article.Renee (talk) 05:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
    • The Weymark and Huang references appear to be about something unrelated. Zhou is a common name among academics; you have to be sure it's the right Zhou. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:38, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Delete. Thanks. You're right. I went and examined the references of the full articles and the former refers to an L. Zhou and the latter (Chen-Hsu-Zhou) conjecture is by a J. Zhou. I've changed my vote. Thanks for catching that.Renee (talk) 10:14, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom and per Reneeholle. Could not find anything at all related to this conjecture in MathSciNet. A non-notable conjecture by a non-notable mathematician. Nsk92 (talk) 17:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - agree with nominator. Gandalf61 (talk) 12:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - a paper was published on this in what appears to be a peer-reviewed journal. That's nice, but it doesn't make a subject notable. A note in the Chinese version of SciAm really doesn't, either. It's not nothing, but it's not enough to establish notability in this rough crowd. Merenta (talk) 00:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak delete The conjecture, as presently stated, is meaningless (the variable p appears in the if part, and not in the then). If there is an article here, better to start over once notability is established. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Non-notable (scholar) article about a neologism. (Does the paper by Zhou himself call this the Zhou conjecture?) silly rabbit (talk) 11:49, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 00:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


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