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Logical Cube
Sorry, but I nominated the article Logical Cube for deletion, as it appears to contain nothing more than original research. Phenomenah should be documented and described elsewhere before being documented on Wikipedia; in the case of anti-patterns; Wikipedia is not the place to document questionable or destructive behavior that you've noticed in your organization, but hasn't been described in the literature.

If you are interested in proposing a new anti-pattern to the world at large; a better place to do that is WikiWikiWeb (sometimes known as c2.com); that site maintains an informal catalog of anti-patterns and patterns. As WikiWikiWeb is not an encyclopedia (and thus not contrainted by the "no original research" rule), it is always welcoming to new proposals. If your proposal is significantly discussed and fleshed out there, and then referenced by other sources; that may become sufficient documentation of the antipattern to make it an acceptable subject for Wikipedia. But until it is documented elsewhere, an anti-pattern isn't suitable for Wikipedia.

I've proposed a few anti-patterns (and patterns) on c2 myself; some of them may eventually be citeable on Wikipedia someday.

If I'm mistaken, and you can demonstrate that this anti-pattern has been documented elsewhere, please provide a source on the AfD discussion page. Demonstration that this is a documented anti-pattern, rather than something that you have just come up with, will cause any object I have to evaporate, and I'll happily support keeping the article. I did a search on google (which is usually pretty good for CS topics), and got zero hits. If the pattern is documented, but under a different name, then the article should be renamed or merged as appropriate.

Thanks for understanding, --EngineerScotty 18:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)