Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Table of metaheuristics

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The result was no consensus‎. ✗plicit 12:55, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Table of metaheuristics

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Per WP:NLIST.

Some of the items (e.g. Genetic Algorithm) indeed have notability.

Otherwise, notability the list is not shown. Are there any mentions of metaheuristic algorithms as a group other than a reason to introduce another one, or to take action on unchecked creation of such algorithms?

As metaheuristic algorithms still continue to be introduced at a pace of (conservatively) dozens per year, this list is arbitrary in nature, which is another argument for not having it.

For more context, there is an attempt to have such a listing elsewhere, also lagging behind the current state.

Another possible course of action is to clean the list up (to those algorithms with a Wiki page) and merge into the main article.

Neodiprion demoides (talk) 17:38, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:46, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:22, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:26, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably delete, as there is no overarching citation that discusses metaheuristic algorithms as such. Perhaps "optimisation" would cover much of it. Without that, the article is close to WP:SYNTH. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:50, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Optimization is too broad for this topic. If new ones are introduced, only major should be listed or some classification of them should be described (i.e. improve). Solar Apex (talk) 06:14, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note that without any citation that describes the topic as a whole, WP:SYNTH --- i.e. WP:OR applies. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:28, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:55, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 16:31, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.