Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ubiquitous command and control

Ubiquitous command and control

Minor conceptual model - no evidence of wider adoption by either the academic or C&C community. All references supplied by authors of concept. Fredrick day 11:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. This is a really complete, detailed, informative, and well-formatted article. My very soul cries out at the prospect of deleting an article of this caliber. However... it does seem to based on a single paper submitted in 1999. There are many many academic papers submitted every year... I would figure that, since so much went into the writing of the article, that the article creator would have included links to second parties taking this up, if there were any such links. I can't see keeping the article. It's not quite original research, since the paper does exist. But with no shown impact, I can't see keeping the article. Herostratus 16:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 00:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete It is evident that a lot of work has been put into this article. But that doesn't mean it meets notability guidelines. Nothing in this jargon-laden article establishes its significance or notability. And there is good reason to be suspicious because it does not appear to have ever been published, much less published in a peer-reviewed journal. Rather, it was presented once at a conference, and in all fairness to the author I doubt many people have heard or taken notice of the paper. Allon Fambrizzi 00:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)Allon Fambrizzi[reply]
Delete, with regrets. Like the others, I believe a lot of work has gone into this article. I hate to see so much good work wasted, but the subject simply doesn't meet notability standards, and there aren't enough independent sources. Now if we could get this editor to work on some truly notable sunjects, Wikipedia would be the better for it. Realkyhick 06:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unfortunately. I've been trying to come up with ways to salvage this article but I can't think of any. It is extremely well-written and deleting it would be a pity but I share the sentiment, that it basically doesn't meet WP:N. The best course of action, in my humble opinion, would be to notify the author and ask him to put the article somewhere more appropriate. -- Seed 2.0 13:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletions. -- Carom 13:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, fairly strongly. You mean that this sort of complete bollocks has infected someone's military? I blame PowerPoint, the death of literacy.
Unlike some of the editors above, I am underwhelmed by this sort of writing. I agree that it does seem to represent a lot of work, and share the sentiment that it's a shame to delete something that effort has been invested in. But, having read through the whole thing, I feel like I know nothing that I didn't know at the beginning. It seemed platitudinous, tautological, and seeking to camouflage its emptiness with inappropriate abstractions. The only military application I could imagine for this sort of prose would be to torment unlawful combatants with, but that would be a war crime. In the end, this article really isn't about anything. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]