Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trisk

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Snow delete, no need to give blatant hoaxes the benefit of the full seven days of AfD discussion. Fram (talk) 10:59, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trisk

This is a hoax. In response to my request for sources, the author Oldeagle (talk · contribs) inserted the initial statement about it being based on "recent discoveries in the hand scripts" of Democritus and Leucippus. According to their articles, any hand script from Leucippus would be sensational news, as only one fragment of his works is known to have survived, and we only know Democritus' mathematics "through citations of his works in other writings."

Searches in Google and Scholar on "Trisk" or "Trisc" or every combination of them with "Democritus" or "Leucippus" turn up nothing relevant, e.g. [1], [2], [3]. The author has helpfully included links to "Trisk" on our sister projects, but none of them has anything about it.

Moreover, the mathematics is nonsense. If the equation given for a "trisk" had an equals sign, it would define an infinite surface in 3-space - to see this, consider that if we hold any variable, say z, constant, x can go to plus infinity (i.e. get as large as you like) while y goes to minus infinity, or the other way round. The area of this surface is infinite, not "πR3". The equation as actually given has a "less than" sign, so what it defines is not a surface but a set of points on one side of that infinite surface, occupying half of 3-space.

Delete as hoax. JohnCD (talk) 20:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Del hoax/OR. close to being speedy. --Salix (talk): 21:15, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A really good hoax, written with the aura of higher mathematics-- but still a hoax. My favorite part is that since the area of a circle is pi-r-squared, the area of a "trisk" is pi-r-cubed. The "recent discoveries" of work by Democritus and Leucippus "in their hand scripts" was a nice touch. Mandsford (talk) 21:15, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete as unsourced WP:OR at best and HOAX in all likelihood. Plastikspork (talk) 21:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - this is evidently a Greek hoax: three IPs have contributed, each WHOIS resolves to Greece, one specifically to the University of Patras. JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a hoax. CanadianNine 22:24, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a hoax. Edward321 (talk) 23:04, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete absoulutely no sources, and I don't think there are any reasonable sources. ArkianNWM (talk) 23:08, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete Blatant hoax, tagged. - 2 ... says you, says me, suggestion box 23:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This article is worthless crap. The title is a neologism referring to something for which standard, and quite different, terminology exists. The claim of ancient Greek origins must be considered "OR". Michael Hardy (talk) 04:07, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, though I find it amusing. — Emil J. 15:10, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Handwriting of Democritus? Codswallop; we wouldn't know the handwriting of Democritus if we found it. Delete Septentrionalis PMAnderson 05:50, 27 April 2009 (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.