Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dylan's effect


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  | Talk 00:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Dylan's effect
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Non-notable term. Appears to be a neologism originating from Japan. ← Spidern  →  15:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - Arguably speedy as being incoherent. AlexTiefling (talk) 17:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per reasons stated above. T-95 (talk) 17:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a translation of an article on the Japanese Wikipedia. That, itself, has been challenged, on its talk page, for being original research &mdash; a Wikipedia editor's own anaylsis of something that can be found in a comic.  There are no real sources documenting any such effect &mdash; as the article itself notes, in fact.  (This is another point queried at the Japanese Wikipedia.) This is unsurprising.  The widely-accepted explanation of how songs become stuck in one's head is based upon Baddeley's model of working memory.  (Pr&eacute;cis: Part of the song becomes stuck in the phonological loop because the rehearsal process keeps triggering probes into long-term memory that keep referencing the song.)  It has nothing to do with either Bob Dylan or Anne McCaffrey, or indeed with the quality of the song.  (Want to know more?  Read chapter 1 of ISBN 9780415942454.) This is original research and not worth saving. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 18:27, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Uncle G--- I have wondered what the scientific name is for the phenomenon of hearing the same song in one's mind, over and over. Everybody can describe it, but the name for it isn't well known.  I've never heard it called Dylan's effect, anymore than it could be called the "Mickey effect" from a scene in Wayne's World, the only pop culture reference I can think of. Mandsford (talk) 20:10, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete completely incoherent, can't even understand what it is. Google comes up with only false positives. Seems to fail WP:NEO in any case.  ♪Tempo  di Valse ♪  20:34, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete okey, its was an oversight WP:NEO. and could not other source as yet. --Chiether (talk) 14:53, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


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