Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Generational Compression

Generational Compression

It cites no sources, it's not encyclopedic, it's ridiculously verbose, and it makes my head hurt. Delete as original research. TheMadBaron 15:28, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was just me. Delete as original research, or nonsense (I can't tell which).--GraemeMcRae^talk 15:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, not cited. Gazpacho 17:00, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unsourced OR. MCB 20:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOR.--Isotope23 20:33, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unless the article is cleaned up significantly. There seems to be a real theory of generational compression, although I can't figure out what it is. All the Google hits define it as "compressing generations" or some other circular definition. --TantalumTelluride 21:07, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Seems to be something to do with the theory of technological singularity, which I fondly remember being trendy back in the early 1990s, at a time when fractals, The Shamen and Wired magazine were all genuinely hip and futuristic, and we were on the verge of being contacted by big-headed aliens and so forth. Ah, nostalgia. But delete the article; it would take more work to rewrite this text than to write a new article from scratch. Seems to be the magnum opus of two IP addresses, and the thought of all their hard work being deleted amuses me in a sadistic way. -Ashley Pomeroy 21:39, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- I consider myself knowledgeable on both the Singularity and the Flynn effect and can confidently say that this page is not just original research, it's nonsense. -- Schaefer 05:35, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm so happy to know that. I had to read it four times before I thought I had some idea what it was trying to say, and then I felt quite sure that what I thought it meant made no sense, but I still couldn't be absolutely sure that what I thought it meant was actually what it said. I think need an aspirin.... TheMadBaron 09:13, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - I had the same feeling, because my first thought was to try to wikify it. The first thing it needed, I thought, was a topic sentence, so I started this way: Generational Compression is the theory that... and then I found my self completely unable to say one more word about it. As such, it's a very clever piece of writing, like the Sokal paper--it gives the impression of being meaninful without actually containing any meaning.