Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wagaman Reference Lines


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The result was   delete. ff m  18:09, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Wagaman Reference Lines

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non-notable - possible hoax &mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 12:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete "The term Wagaman Reference Lines was first used by Texas A&M University Graduate Student John Wagaman when describing the lines on a boxplot that often appear at the end of the whiskers, on the opposite end of the box." Looks like a prank to me.  The article was created more than a year ago by User:Jwagaman, who "retired" after making this lone contribution.  I have a feeling that this was perpetrated by one of Wagaman's friends, perhaps an experiment to see how long it would stay before someone was brave enough to nominate it for deletion; and that it stayed up because most of us are reluctant to admit that we don't know what a boxplot is.  There is grad student/teaching assistant by that name at Texas A&M, who is probably working on a masters or a doctorate in mathematics there.  If you had an insight and you had a choice between introducing it in a respected journal, or on Wikipedia, which one would you choose?  Congratulations to the author on the staying power of this submission.  Mandsford (talk) 13:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom, probably a hoax, if not, Wikipedia is not the place for injokes. Mvjs  Talking  08:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Mandsford. AlexTiefling (talk) 16:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Wikipedia is not a place for something made up in school one day. Not sourced; in fact, the article basically states that it's original research. B.Wind (talk) 04:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)


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