Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laws of information systems (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  11:46, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Laws of information systems
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Although some of the concepts mentioned on the page are notable, the grouping of them together as "Laws of information systems" doesn't seem to be. I couldn't find any sources supporting this term/concept being notable and searching found very little use of the term in general. JaggedHamster (talk) 10:16, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. The title and the concept are basically the creation of the article's author, as indicated by the lack of inline citations (not to mention the lack of wikilinks), suggesting WP:OR by synthesis. The choice of title, too, is essentially arbitrary; for example, the article conflates Brooks's law (yes, that isn't linked in the article either) with information systems, but Brooks was writing about software project management, which is not the same thing. I'd suggest a redirect, but it'd be to a WP:SYNTH combination of information systems, software engineering, software project management, and (in the case of Moore's law, for instance), computer architecture. By the way, of the four sources listed, one is Brooks (off-topic); one is Kurzweil (on Moore's law and such matters: not really about info. systems); one is Harmon 1998, on treating info. systems as thermodynamic engines; and the remaining one, Amaravadi 2004, is actually on the topic, but not sufficient on its own to establish notability. So the case is hopeless, please delete it at once. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:01, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete OR/SYNTH. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 14:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


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