Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vehicular Reactive Routing protocol

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Non-notable academic topic. Article summarizes an academic paper that has only received five citations so far (per google scholar). Lesser Cartographies (talk) 23:47, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is this an article on the protocol or on the paper? A lack of citations to a paper might be evidence of non-notability for that paper, but it's not evidence that the protocol isn't being used or studied. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:33, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's a reasonable question. I'm getting four hits on google scholar, two cited five times and two not cited at all. The two cited papers are by the same author. So I'd say both the paper and the topic are non-notable. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 06:41, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete seems like yet another attempt to promote an acronym by using Grandiose Capital Letters to Make it Sound Important. There are already far too many articles with uncited promotion using different acronyms for the same topic. See Vehicular ad hoc network, Mobile ad hoc network, Intelligent vehicular ad-hoc network, Dedicated short-range communications, Communications, Air-interface, Long and Medium range (should be moved?), and IEEE 802.11p (at least Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment got redirected there). These might be consolidated into one or two neutral articles if someone ever has the time. We have done some work fighting the pollution, and this one does not seem to add any value, just promoting one student's project. W Nowicki (talk) 17:19, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]