Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global Prescience


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 07:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Global Prescience

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The page and subject do not appear to satisfy the policies on verifiability, original research, or neutral point of view. Based on notability guidelines, it does not seem possible to develop an article which meets the policies. The page is apparently an essay describing a original futurology thesis encompassed by the coined term, "global prescience". The term seems to be a neologism, and does not look to have any traction outside Pennsylvania State University. Although it was suggested that it may be possible to merge content into the futurology article, I am unsure of what, if anything, would be suitable for a merge. Despite the numerous citations included in the "Global Prescience" page, they seem to be used in synthesis; none of them could be found to cover "global prescience" directly. Dancter (talk) 18:17, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete or stubbify with reference to the Penn State group. The article as written is pure OR.  Google Scholar shows no academic publications using this term. Looie496 (talk) 18:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This is Original research. The many references are merely peripheral support for why the theory might conceivably be a good idea, not evidence for anything. DGG (talk) 00:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, an essay full of original research that contains large swatches of codswallop: Through socio-cognitive factors, global prescience is linked to semiotics, the science of how meaning is constructed and understood. The design of a clue detection engine needs to take into account the role of semiotics. The application of semiotics to global prescience underscores the reinforcement of connotative meanings such that sensemaking networks will detect information along a certain calculus. The study of language and audition recognizes the importance of semiotics, alongside its complexity and philosophical basis. The general tenor of the article seems to be about some kind of magical technology that will keep you abreast of emerging trends, apparently for financial gain, suggesting ulterior motives. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2009 (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.