Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghost Data

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:07, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ghost Data

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Inscrutable article on a WP:NEOLOGISM, with sources of questionable reliability. There are some hits for this term on Scholar (see, e.g., doi:10.1109/MCG.2010.26), but I am not clear whether the term refers to the same, identifiable phenomenon in all contexts. I should note that I removed a substantial chunk of this article, which looked to be an unreferenced WP:ESSAY. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 19:23, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 19:23, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. The creator of this article left the following message on the talk page for this AfD. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 20:58, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ghost Data is a new and well-defined term in computer science (DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2010.26) and statistics. But there is not any term in Wikipedia to describe it. The term ghost data has been given a wrong redirection to the term ghost in video games, which is too narrow for the term ghost data. Hence I strongly suggest the Ghost Data should remain for the public good. The description can be continuously improved with help from worldwide.

Comment References 1 and 3 are blog posts and thus unreliable sources. XOR'easter (talk) 22:18, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 23:21, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I have read the term "ghost data" before, But (to my knowledge) it is simply shorthand for information that exists but cannot be readily seen using normal or proven methods. There is no generally accepted criteria for what it is and the meaning will vary in different fields and with different authors. The concept of ghost data would be better addressed in individual articles, such as those mentioned in the article, not in a single article. // Timothy :: talk 17:33, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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