Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karatsuba phenomenon


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The result was   merge to Parity problem (sieve theory). JohnCD (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Karatsuba phenomenon

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No evidence of notability. Of the three references, two are papers written by Karatsuba, and the third was published 95 years before the "phenomenon" is stated to have been discovered, so it can scarcely demonstrate notability. Searches have likewise failed to unearth evidence of notability: for example, Google scholar gives no hits at all, and virtually everything I have found is from unreliable sources. PROD was contested with an edit summary saying "2 published paper by an eminent mathematician in good journals seems enough for notatbility", but unfortunately that completely misses the point of the notability guidelines: a person's work is not shown to be notable because that person has written about it. Almost every one of the goodness knows how many academics in the world publishes papers in academic journals, but they are not all notable. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:49, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  — frankie (talk) 16:08, 23 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete: No hits in Google books as well. Perhaps a brief description of the subject could be added to Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba.


 * Comment While the topic of the article is a minor but respectable result related to the notorious parity problem for sieves, the title is a neologism which is not really acceptable. I have therefore merged the article into Parity problem (sieve theory). I suggest making "Karatsuba phenomenon" into a redirect to this article to preserve the history.
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