Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SETI paradox

SETI paradox

Nomination: No mention of notability, and I suspect there is none at this point enough to warrant an article on Wikipedia. Additionally, the article is largely composed of speculative opinion that I doubt can be attributed. I'm not even sure if the opinions of this Zaitsev is a mainstream one worthy of mention, eg. Google turns up only message boards and blogs (other than his paper, Wikipedia and its mirrors) none of which seem to meet the criteria for a reliable source or expert opinion. ~ Jafet _{Speaker of many words} 06:22, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to suggest to your notice an article: SETI’s Paradox and the Great Silence (with 52 comments) —Preceding unsigned comment added by METIfan (talk • contribs) 08:59, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless reliable secondary sources can be found. Most of the sources on the subject appear to stem from a single paper published over a year ago, and they are mostly blogs (for example, here or listings of the paper (for example, here).-Samuel Tan 14:54, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have a sneaking suspicion that this can be sourced somewhere. SETI was a pretty popular concept among scientists for a while and some breathless conference papers were written about it. Perhaps somewhere criticizing the Drake equation (aside from the criticism of it being non-scientific gobbledygook). I'll look. Protonk (talk) 15:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
...Oh yeah! This can probably be merged into Fermi paradox rather than deleted. Protonk (talk) 15:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Samuel Tan. I've been keeping an eye on this article for a while and it's seemed pretty clear that this has no secondary sources to back it up. fethers (talk) 20:12, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]