Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adequate determinism


 * 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. Jayjg (talk) 04:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Adequate determinism

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This is a philosophical idea created by Bob Doyle, who may also be the author of the article itself. While Mr Doyle is apparently notable enough to have an article (even if he did create that himself as well), he is not a published philosopher (letters to the editor of Nature don't count), and the term has no third-party use. – Smyth\talk 20:08, 18 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge into Bob Doyle, as very few reliable sources can be found about this idea. Bearian (talk) 19:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. The article is incoherent and citations are obscure. Ted Honderich uses the phrase dismissively but otherwise there are no sources that discuss it apart from Bob Doyle's essay. It can always be recreated if there are in fact any 3rd party articles that discuss the concept. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Obvious merge No sense or reason behind losing the worthy tidbits or editing history. Freakshownerd (talk) 02:24, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * What worthy tidbits? There is no reliably sourced material. Even the quote from Cicero doesn't cite any particular translation, and so is unusable. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 09:49, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails notability; literature uses of the two words together do not refer to this term. No reliable sources in article. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 09:44, 1 August 2010 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.