Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael LaLena


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was Merge and Redirect to ant colony optimization. I have redirected; editors are welcome to merge in any useful information from the history.  BLACK KITE  00:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Michael LaLena

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This article seems borderline; there's assertion of notability, but most of the article as is talks about the general field in which the subject works, rather than the subject himself. It's not clear how much of this discussion is his work and how much is background. The sources listed are not AFAICT by or about the subject. He has some academic publications and a couple of citations in other people's (see Talk page for Google Scholar links), but no more there than one would expect from any academic. Perhaps the article might be better merged with ant colony optimization or similar? Pseudomonas(talk) 18:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into ant colony optimization, per nom. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 19:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. This is not an article about Michael Lalena. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge, doesn't look like he's quite worth a bio yet.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 23:41, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Update? I could update this page with more biographical data. I specifically disagree with merging into ant colony optimization. That article deals with a specific individual's graph theory approach to solving ant food collection problems, where the lalena approach is Genetic Programming and Swarm Intelligence based - similar to some of John Koza's work, but with the teamwork slant. I believe the contents of this article are too specific to fit well into the Genetic Programming or Swarm Intelligence articles. Should I update the article here? Managedcards (talk) 23:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Are you personally connected with the subject of this article? I ask because of your username and the face that managedcards.com is registered to a Michael Lalena . Pseudomonas(talk) 17:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. This is not a biography, and it is not clear that notability has been established for a real biography. Tim Ross ·talk  15:04, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge into ant colony optimization, which the article is really about. Stand alone notability of Michael LaLena himself is not demonstrated.  Michael is merely the author of the sole external link.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


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