Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fluorescent multilayer card


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  11:55, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Fluorescent multilayer card

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Fails WP:GNG. No references. Imcdc (talk) 10:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Imcdc (talk) 10:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Imcdc (talk) 10:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)


 * delete Marketing piece, and obvious copyright breach. The text is copied from the Free Journal. No sources. They did not even bother to do a proper promotional piece. Must go away.Ode+Joy (talk) 12:46, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fluorescent Multilayer Disc, which is a thing that actually existed. I am having big trouble finding any sources talking about a "fluorescent multilayer card" (and it's likely that a physical one was never made). jp×g 20:25, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete this one entirely, since there is nothing to merge and the redirect would probably not be useful in my opinion. Doing some quick research, there is a story that is interesting to tell. Apparently the company behind it and the disk got re-invented several times under interesting circumstances. Maybe the tens of millions they went through are small peanuts by today's standards, but at least I find it interesting and more sources for the company than the technology. I would lean to merging Fluorescent Multilayer Disc and even Digital Multilayer Disk perhaps too, starting with Constellation 3D since it has some sources (I just added a few, and there are more for the company since it was briefly public, its chairman was arrested, etc.). At the least, we could work on 3D optical data storage, but if anything, that overall article could be trimmed down a bit to reduce the crystal-ball language. W Nowicki (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Yet more interesting. It turns out the person behind the physics of these technologies already had an article. Eugene Levich was a refusenik in the Soviet Union, who got a free ticket to Siberia, before lobbying from the international community allowed him to emigrate! His article (and one on his father Veniamin Levich needed some TLC too. Still think a pure delete of this one is in order. It seems the card was never even demonstrated. As far as they got was a trademark and some press releases. W Nowicki (talk) 20:00, 14 October 2021 (UTC)


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