Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deconstructing SMPs

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 speedy delete as intentional vandalism. This isn't quite patent nonsense. This is subtle nonsense, that might not be obvious to everyone. The content of the article contains grammatically correct sentences, but as noted by Andyjsmith on Talk:Visualiation of memory bus, they have no actual meaning, stringing together as they do random technical terms. This is just incoherent gibberish, and as Andyjsmith further notes, there are computer programs that will actually generate such text.

For the non-technical editor, the big clue is the names at the top: "Barry Douface and Adolf Penhead". Clearly these are "doofus" and "pinhead". Andyjsmith performed a good-faith Google Scholar search for these names, but even if they were the names of real people, that wouldn't be a reason to keep this nonsense, or a reason to think that this was anything but vandalism. All assumptions of good faith are negated by what Memory bus (talk · contribs) writes on the talk pages. Clearly, by xyr reaction, this is intentional vandalism, and xe intends to keep up the pretense as long as possible.

By the way: Even if this were a genuine paper, which it clearly isn't, it still wouldn't be appropriate for Wikipedia, which is an encyclopaedia, not an academic journal. But that would not be a matter for speedy deletion. Uncle G (talk) 13:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Contested prod; article is original research, and Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. slakr^\ talk / 12:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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