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 Although perhaps should be covered somewhere, there are already articles using different acronyms for the same general 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?), Intelligent transportation system 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 trying to improve this quality, and this one does not seem to add any value, just promoting one student's project. W Nowicki (talk) 18:55, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 00:42, 15 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]