Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Megacycles
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From Cleanup: Megacycles, unwikfied, incomprehensible
- What significance? As is, just definition. --Davout 12:56, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- POV issues "Geologists agreed that..." Nanocycles method *internal inconsitency ("586.2385 million years" from a calculation accurate to +/-0.03 million years?
- Google gives 4 hits for Megacycles Nanocycles ...
- we may be in tinfoil hat territory, tonto --Tagishsimon
- Sounds very fishy. If you type nanocycles in amazon, the only hit you get is the science fiction book 'cradle' by A.C. Clark *grin*. Here is the quote
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- After exiting from the dive into the thick atmosphere, the interstellar voyager covers the final distance to its target in a leisurely six hundred nanocycles.
- But that is not very fair, at least his reference is for sale at Amazon (Megacycles: Long-Term Episodicity in Earth and Planetary History). And some of the other references he quotes on his web page [1] are also real books. It still looks like pseudo-science though. But perhaphs if the articles on megacycles and nanocycles are merged and npoved it is well known enough to warrant a page. (btw, this material is also added to cycles). Sander123 13:37, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: unsubstantiated original research. User:RayTomes seems to be a really nice guy but he certainly has an agenda to push [2]. I have read of vague suggestions of very long-term cycles in geologic history, but "geologists agree" is wishful thinking, and to claim the period of the cycle has been determined to 7 decimal places is simple crankery. Until a middle-of-the-road geologist comes by to write about these vague cycles, I'm willing to live without this article. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:03, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I worry a bit about anything Ray Tomes submits... he once mentioned himself as a significant researcher in an article. Isomorphic 07:56, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. He may be thinking of the periodic waves of extinction but this article doesn't mention anything like that. ping 08:04, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
