Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laser star hypothesis

''Laser star hypothesis was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to keep.''

Alert! this was created by User:Plautus satire, a notorious user of Wikipedia. His editing privileges have been revoked for a whole year. I would suggest everyone look at Requests for arbitration/Plautus satire vs Raul654 and Requests for arbitration/Plautus satire vs Raul654/Evidence. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:20, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * looks like original research; all I find are WikiPedia dupes on Google, and on Groups, I find nothing really *at all* (really very bad) except a single discussion 10 years ago involving John Talbot, principle investigator of said phenomenon. 132.205.95.64 04:30, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Ahem. Not all academic research can be found on Google. Sheesh. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't find anything on Science, Nature or arXiv  either. 132.205.15.43 04:26, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I get the impression that several scientists have been working on this subject, and if so, it is not any one Wikipedia contributor's "original research". (Why is there this phobia against "original research", anyway?) I just searched on [Altavistafor "laser stars" and it said "AltaVista found 601 results". [[User:Anthony Appleyard|Anthony Appleyard]] 11:39, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * No vote, but see No original research [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 16:23, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * The article refers to the laser star hypothesis, which is an alternate explaination for quasars, and not to laser stars, which would be something different. 132.205.94.6 19:17, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * The article is also not about adaptive optics and the use of laser guide stars produce by shooting lasers at sodium atoms in the upper atmosphere to guage atmospheric fluctuations, but about stars that might be an alternate explaination to quasars. 132.205.94.6 19:35, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * according to the talk page... it was created by a banned user 132.205.94.6 19:35, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * keep so far and rename to "laser star model" look for laser star quasar -wikipedia and you get some astronomy sources which suggest that quasars really are laser Stars which lead to this paper . I like the Galileo quote at the bottom of the Varshni paper. Very apt for  Wikipedia :-) :-)  Mozzerati 19:58, 2004 Nov 17 (UTC)
 * looking further into this, the theories are very strange; they seem to be mostly determined to prove that a) there is no red shift and b) the earth is at the "center" of the universe and c) the earth is flat^H^H^H^H .. most likely a mad christian scientist theory, but probably still worth keeping, if just to trash it.
 * seems to equate microquasars with Young Stellar Objects with luminous blue variables with umpteen other types of celestial phenomena... 132.205.94.6 20:19, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * If it were a keep, wouldn't laser star model of quasars be more appropriate? Not that I favour keeping it. 132.205.94.6 20:20, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Idont Havaname 00:05, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, as per Mozzerati Denni &#9775; 01:24, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)
 * Delete, created by PlautusSatire. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:20, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. There may be a good "laser star" article to be written, but this isn't it. -- The Anome 12:40, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

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