Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Law of conservation of information: First law of information Theory

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Law of conservation of information: First law of information Theory
Original research and junk science; see http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CI/CI010.html - Fredrik | talk 20:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment -- It currently reads as a technical research paper -- something that Wikipedia is not. Zzyzx11 00:36, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless better sources provided. Probably personal essay/original research. The apparent sources are very flawed. The first link, which contains a typo, becomes http://members.aol.com/jmtsgibbs/infothry.htm when the typo is corrected. Although the contributor gives this link the title "Quantum Conservation of Information Theory," the actual page is entitled "Quantum Information Theory." Neither it nor any of the six pages it links to mention any "law of conservation of information;" in fact, they do not contain the word "conservation" anywhere. It is disturbing that this link does not actually reference the topic it is said to reference. The second reference is to http://www.oridream.com which does not appear to have any significant English-language content. The article itself refers solely to "information theory," presumably the body of work created by Claude Shannon. Shannon's work contains no such conservation principle. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:42, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete The most fundamental discoveries in Information Theory were made by Claude Shannon in 1948 and 1949, which say, more or less, that good compression, good error-control coding, and good cryptography are all possible, but that there are limits on their effectiveness. These are sometimes called "Shannon's Theorems" and if anything deserves to be called "First Law of Info Theory," it's the first of these.  This is non-mathematical junk. Crunchy Frog 03:29, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)