Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shafer's Wager

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 12:12, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Subject lacks coverage in reliable sources for verification and notability Meatsgains (talk) 21:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:11, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have referenced the original blog post which contains Shafer's Wager. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcs37 (talk • contribs) 00:48, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Michael Shafer per WP:CHEAP. The concept is extremely important yet just not notable. Bearian (talk) 02:37, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

*Merge and redirect into Michael Shafer as Berian suggests. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:14, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Michael Shafer is a college basketball coach, Michael Schäfer is a Danish soccer star and commentator, Michael Schaefer (producer) is a film producer, and Michael P. Schaefer was a Pennsylvania politician, now deceased. None of these appear to be the Michael Shafer who wrote the blog post. I can't find any information about the blogger at his website, so I can't be sure which of the many, many Michael Shafers on the internet might be this one, but I can find no indication that "Shafe's Blog" or this particular page have been the subject of coverage in independent reliable sources. If I have missed something I will certainly reconsider.--Arxiloxos (talk) 21:32, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, dang, I was badly mistaken. With no reasonable place to redirect, have to concur that the appropriate action is delete. Thanks for pointing that out. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 22:02, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Yeah, I'm the Michael Shafer who wrote it, and I'm not the basketball coach. I codified the concept of Shafer's Wager years ago and I wanted to preserve it in Wikipedia, but apparently it's impossible to store information in Wikipedia unless you have multiple outside references. Do I need to get the New York Times to mention it? What does it take to create multiple reliable sources for something I came up with?

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