Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nurse scheduling problem

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Written like an essay. No references. There is nothing special about nurse scheduling that does not apply to scheduling constraints for any field. jsfouche ☽☾Talk 21:58, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - If there are staffing issues related to nursing (which...as a nurse, short-staffing can be a serious problem in the industry), but those issues should be noted on the general page for the career. This is an essay. Bali88 (talk) 22:12, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge somewhere. There is a substantial literature on this specific operations research problem (over 1,000 Google Scholar hits). It might be better discussed in a broader context, though I see no ideal merge target. A WP:TROUT to the nominator for not doing a WP:BEFORE check. -- 101.119.14.210 (talk) 07:49, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Move to "Nurse scheduling". Of the four external links provided, only one (Goodman) is clearly relevant. One link is to an archived format and the other two are not found. There are papers that describe the nurse scheduling problem (Weil and Okada). However the more generic title, "Nurse scheduling", provides other suitable references (Sitompul and Yen). The article requires clean-up and in-line citations. Axl ¤ [Talk] 14:24, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Schedule (workplace). I don't think there are major differences between nurse scheduling and other jobs (air traffic controller, grocery worker, police, ...). Admittedly the target I suggested is not well developed so it could be improved by the merge. Dingo1729 (talk) 21:36, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and fix per normal editing processes. There are plenty of sources available on this topic. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nursing in pakistan for a similar example. Bearian (talk) 19:56, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure that Pakistani hospitals also have to schedule their nurses, but Nursing in pakistan doesn't mention that and has absolutely no similarity or connections with this article. Dingo1729 (talk) 04:19, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Both articles started out as crap, and both concerned nursing, which is a marginalized field in academia and the subject of systemic bias here. Bearian (talk) 19:55, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

obvious keep Have you guys even bothered to check google scholar? I count thousands of hits for this class of problem. This is a computer science article ultimately, not one about nurses. It it like the Traveling salesman problem. For whatever reason, this particular class of problems is focused on nurses, but arguments that other fields have scheduling issues is MISSING THE POINT (it's like saying "Well, other jobs need to travel for work, so we shouldn't have Traveling salesman problem). Bearian, I must disagree strongly though that this has much of anything at all to do with systemic bias (or nursing for that matter), and you will likely find the vast majority of sources that discuss this couldn't give a sh*t about nurses, they are simply computer scientists trying to find an optimized solution to a technical problem. Nurses is a RED HERRING here folks.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:14, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]