Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hybrid model


 * 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. Spartaz Humbug! 20:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hybrid model

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The term "hybrid model" is not particularly restricted to computer science and hybrid could be applied to any discipline or topic, for example "hybrid recipe" or "hybrid furniture". It should be deleted on the basis that if extended (to cover hybrid model car, hybrid model of governance, hybrid model for power production ...) this page can only become a dubious dictionary definition of a phrase in common usage rather than an encyclopaedic article. Ash (talk) 08:11, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * A rename to Hybrid model (computer science) should allay the nominator's concerns. This is a scholarly topic in the cognitive science field that Wikipedia should cover.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  09:29, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Certainly the suggested rename would be better than the present situation. However, it is not clear to me that, even within computer science, the particular meaning of "hybrid model" given in the article is general enough to justify being given special coverage, as compared to other uses. Certainly in a context where the four programming paradigms referred to in the article are under consideration one may well refer to a model which is a hybrid between two or more of these paradigms. However, in other contexts, where one is considering other models in other aspects of computer science, one may well refer to other types of "hybrid models". For example, H. D. Schwetman's paper Hybrid simulation models of computer systems (Communications of the ACM archive Volume 21,  Issue 9, pp 718-723) refers to a hybrid model combining discrete-event simulation and analytic techniques: this is nothing to do with the meaning given in the article. Likewise Saheem Siddiqi and Joanne M. Atlee's A hybrid model for specifying features and detecting interactions (Elsevier Science B.V., 18 April 2000) uses the expression "hybrid model" in a quite different sense; it would not be very difficult to list many more examples. Nothing in my experience of computing over the last 40 years encourages me to believe that the particular use of "hybrid model" given in the article has any more prominence in practice than any other use, in computer science any more than elsewhere. In short, the author of the article has come across one particular use of the expression "hybrid model" and written a stub article on it, although there is nothing special or preeminent about that use above the ordinary English meaning of the expression. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:30, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Hybrid model is an artifact, built from two or more paradigms.  You left out the used chewing gum and duct tape.  I generally don't support deleting articles only on "dictionary definition" alone, if they have any possibility for expansion.  But the phrase "hybrid model" seems to be simultaneously self-explanatory, and too vague to support much of an article.  As a definition, the current text is surely imperfect, and it goes downhill from there. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 19:18, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing in the article covers a general, acceptable term "hybrid model". Renaming to Hybrid model (computer science) could be Ok with me, but only if there is a consensus the article can survive within the computing project. Materialscientist (talk) 12:01, 20 August 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.