Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interconnectivity

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The result was delete. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:55, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Interconnectivity

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Vague unreferenced personal essay Bhny (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Not sure that this is a personal essay. This is seems more like a case of WP:DICDEF, and I'd normally be inclined to delete. However, the term does seems to have some coverage. Here, it's used as a metric of e-mail connectedness at the level of an entire country. Here it is used 85 times to describe collaboration. Here it is used as a category of network architectures. The problem is that the term seems to take on its own definitions across different disciplines (which the current article suggests), none of which seems to have any substantial coverage. I'd like to see more feedback from others before I make a decision here. I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 19:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 20:23, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The incomprehensible personal essay part is- The concept is closely linked to the observer effect and the butterfly effect.[1] It is often linked to the concepts of interconnectedness which is used to refer to the spiritual, and interdependence which refers to the moral, rather than physical or scientific.' Bhny (talk) 21:59, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Interconnectivity, interconnection and interconnecteness are all related concepts. They are very broad concepts, potentially applicable to any system that has components or elements that interact. A Gscholar search for "Interconnectivity" reveals a broad set of articles, with no one field dominating. The term is used often enough to be highly notable, but I doubt we could write an article covering all its uses. The best approach may be a WP:DABCONCEPT article that points readers to various fields where this is a notable topic. The current article espouses a particular view of interconnectedness, that of interconnection producing fragility, and seems to have a too narrow/personal point of view. --Mark viking (talk) 23:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - subject is already dealt with much more thoroughly in our articles on emergence and holism. Gandalf61 (talk) 10:15, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While it may indeed be that the English noun "interconnectivity" refers to all of the things mentioned in the article, it seems like a stretch to say that therefore there is a single notion of interconnectivity that applies to biological systems, network topology, etc. The one source cited does not seem to be adequate to establish this. I would need a good deal more convincing that synthesis of these different uses of interconnectivity is not original research. Sławomir Biały (talk) 11:07, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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