Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Data haven


 * 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   speedy keep. Oops. By the way, this was a honest mistake. Thanks for all the bad faith accusations. (non-admin closure) Pcap ping  23:29, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Data haven

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Promotional article for a site with same name. A google books search finds no references for this supposedly established meaning, but there are plenty of uses as a synonym for /dev/null. Pcap ping  14:19, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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 * Strong Keep. As usual, Pohta is nominating in bad faith. Notice that one stray external link makes him accuse the entire article of being a promotional article, when a simple look through the history - or use of WikiBlame - would have revealed that that link was inserted in December 2009, which is roughly 6 years after the article was created.
 * I'm also struck that it took more than 7 years for someone graced the article with an AfD; but I guess not a single person before Pohta realized that it was a non-existent concept.
 * As for the rest of his nomination: I have no idea how he can claim that a Google Book search shows nothing, when I can find dozens of hits. The article specifically cites 2 books!
 * Oh, and it's not as if one can't equally easily find dozens of media articles covering the concept, especially given the recent proposals by Wikileaks about turning Iceland into a data haven for it.
 * Books and newspapers aren't enough? Then I toss in legal stuff and a load of scholarly articles.
 * I've never seen Pohta's 'data haven as synonym for /dev/null', but far be it from me to doubt his claims, so let's toss that on the pile as well.
 * There, I hope that settles it. Can we snowball close this so Pohta can go AfD some more helpless articles? --Gwern (contribs) 19:08 25 April 2010 (GMT)


 * keep err this is a well established concept even if producing practical aplications may well be imposible.©Geni 19:24, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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