Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uncertainty principle for the short-time Fourier transform


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The result was   delete. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:20, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Uncertainty principle for the short-time Fourier transform

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Uninterpretable essay. Dicklyon (talk) 04:11, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete as a personal essay. J I P  &#124; Talk 06:31, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment This article has the form of a mathematical exposition complete with equation numbers, perhaps copied from a paper or a book, rather than an encyclopedic article. Despite that, the prose is somewhat garbled and makes a straightforward subject hard to understand. The uncertainty principle in the context of STFTs is already discussed at Short-time Fourier transform and the Gabor limit at Uncertainty principle and Fourier transform. The article, in its current state, doesn't really add anything to these discussions. A good encyclopedic article on this subject could be written on the topic (that is, the topic is clearly notable), but the current article isn't it. --Mark viking (talk) 12:48, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

*Redirect to Short-time Fourier transform, per Mark Viking's reasoning above. Ray Talk 02:56, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Agreeing with Mark Viking's assessment that the other expositions are much better. I don't think it's worth a redirect. Is anyone likely to type "Uncertainty principle for the short-time Fourier transform" into that little search box? Dingo1729 (talk) 03:51, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment - The bulk of this article was created in a single edit; the same is true of the other article created by this editor, Expansion in spectrograms (also being considered for deletion). That sure raises red flags. Both articles include Time-Frequency Analysis by L. Cohen in the references. If someone has access to this book, they may be able to determine whether it is a copyright violation. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:39, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete G12 as copyvio. Good call, RockMagnetist. I can confirm that at least the lead paragraph and certain other sections are lifted wholesale from Cohen's book. I suspect the other sections are too, but from different chapters from the unitarity of the tone, but I've seen enough to call for a speedy. Ray  Talk 19:16, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I just got hold of Cohen's book, too. It's a lot more interpretable as section 3.4 (same name as this article, but in the context of a chapter on the Uncertainty Principle, where it makes sense).  Pure copyvio.  Dicklyon (talk) 22:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - I have blanked the page and listed it as a copyright violation. RockMagnetist (talk) 20:30, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
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