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:: I do wish to make a case for why it probably shouldn't be kept: I think this particular algorithm has generated a few more citations than the [[firefly algorithm]] because it has been around for a few years longer. To me it appears that a certain group of researchers in this field has just become very good at gaming the [[h-index]] system (take an existing algorithm, tweak the metaphor, write a Wikipedia article, publish a bunch of "applications" in journals run by that same group, repeat), so I'd be very careful about equating the number of citations Google Scholar reports with notability.

:: I do not immediately see the difference between this algorithm and [[ant colony optimization]], which has been around for quite a bit longer. I do not, unfortunately, posses a reliable source that I could use to criticize this algorithm in the article on this point. (This is the whole problem with all these metaheuristics, the junk gets published at a faster rate than could be dubunked by the good scientists.) —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 13:45, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

== Criticism ==

I have removed the boilerplate criticism section that appeared in the lede of this article (and in many others), which appears in more or less the same form at [[List of metaphor-based metaheuristics]]. Since I have made similar removals or replacements on other pages, if anyone has an issue with this one, it's best to start an omnibus discussion at [[Talk:List of metaphor-based metaheuristics]]. —[[User:Psychonaut|Psychonaut]] ([[User talk:Psychonaut|talk]]) 19:19, 31 August 2016 (UTC)