Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Generalized Epidemic Mean-Field Model


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The result was   merge to Compartmental models in epidemiology. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:08, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Generalized Epidemic Mean-Field Model

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Fails notability, based on a single as yet unpublished paper. Gareth Jones (talk) 16:22, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:37, 20 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete or merge  - this does look very much like self-publicity. A Google Scholar search turns up the paper by Sahneh et al, which appears now to have been published, and basically nothing else. The title seems to have been invented by the paper's authors, so WP:NEO would apply to it as a search term. The paper itself could be used as a source in other articles but is not sufficient for an article on its own. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Compartmental models in epidemiology. This article is about a single paper, recently accepted for publication, but is still in the queue for putting ink to paper. I could find no other sources for this topic, so the topic falls below threshold for notability, per WP:GNG. The main author of the article is also an author on the paper, so there are conflict of interest issues, per WP:COI. But the paper, being accepted, is a reliable source and the topic is verifiable. Mean field models, more of a physicists' term, are also called compartmental models in epidemiology. While 'generalized', the model is still a compartmental model with a bit more elaborate network. It's reasonable to add a summary of this to Compartmental models in epidemiology and the topic is a reasonable search term, so a redirect is warranted as well. --Mark viking (talk) 15:49, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable and informed, happy to go along with it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:05, 20 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete or merge per WP:OR. Bearian (talk) 21:03, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
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