Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Probability control
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I put a PROD tag on this article, but someone removed it, so here I am. As it stands, this article is errant nonsense, suggesting that a machine might be constructed to navigate among alternate universes (many-worlds interpretation of QM). DavidCBryant 15:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
- Comment. Just to be thorough, I ran a google search on "probability control" and got 14,100 hits. I reviewed the summaries for the first 50 of those. The term "probability control" is used to describe a feature of Code Division Multiplexing (CDMA) in Electrical Engineering. It is also used to describe some sort of statistical procedure in a number of math papers (I suspect this procedure is connected with the theory of Error Correcting Codes underlying CDMA technology … I didn't take the time to read any of the papers to be certain). It is also used to describe a feature of a number of video games. This article's reference to QM was the only one of the 50 that referred to quantum mechanics, and it came up at the top of list.
- In my opinion, none of the legitimate uses of the phrase "probability control" are notable enough to merit an article on Wikipedia, and the best thing to do is to put this article out of its misery. DavidCBryant 15:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)