Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khumalo Derivative


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The result was   delete. JForget 00:56, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Khumalo Derivative

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Original research, published on a personal blog and unrefereed sites, no support or references from anywhere else. The facts that it not only doesn't make sense but is flavored with a dollop of ranting against the imperialism of Western mathematics is the icing on the cake. ArglebargleIV (talk) 22:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete violates NOR and sorely lacks valid refs. JBsupreme (talk) 06:59, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - fringe theory, original work, or a hoax. Bearian (talk) 20:27, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per everyone. At first I thought the article had been vandalized, but the rambling rant was put in by the article creator. Edward321 (talk) 23:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - unsourced OR which appears (when you strip out the rants) to be simply reinventing the backward difference operator f(x)-f(x-1). Gandalf61 (talk) 08:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is not clearly written until it comes to concrete examples, and then it becomes clear that the "Khumalo Derivative" is actually a difference operator.  Difference operators are not a new discovery and are not "more accurate" than derivatives.  The article also uses one of the same clumsy misuses of notation that one always needs to warn freshmen against. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:32, 5 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.