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The result was delete. v/r - TP 00:23, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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No claim of notability made. A search reveals no sources for this concept except Wikipedia.

The article formerly contained a source, [1]. The article may be a copyvio from that page but I'm not sure. (There are links on the page which take you back to Wikipedia, so maybe they're including content from WP? But the text is from an old revision of the page, not the current one.) In any case, that source does not meet our standards of reliability. Ozob (talk) 01:06, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:NOR. Nonexistent in the published mathematical literature. No hits in either Google scholar or MathSciNet. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This should be speediable (hoax or no assertion of notability). Sławomir Biały (talk) 01:23, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: I believe the reference thetabletableau.webs.com is a mirror of the WP article. In any case, a search did not turn up any published sources and the mathematics itself is trivial and almost certainly OR.--RDBury (talk) 13:49, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:59, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Searching via Google Scholar for works written by M Vitez in engineering, computer science, and mathematics, I find "A novel wide-band audio transmission scheme over the Internet with a smooth quality degradation" by Marko Vitez et al., "V Thermal Microscopy" by Imre M. Vitez et al., and "Adoption without secrets" by M. Vitez. Searching articles in engineering, computer science, and mathematics that mention both the words "Vitez" and "helix", I find "Evaluation of machinability in the micro end milling of printed circuit boards" by JB Park, KH Wie, and JS Park, which cites something written by Z. Illyefalvi-Vitez, and "Laser beam machining—A review", by AK Dubey, which uses the phrase "helix removal", but I'm not sure where "Vitez" appears in it. Dropping the restriction to engineering, computer science, and mathematics, I find that Imre M.&nbspVitez has written about starches and starch derivatives in the Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology. Searching Google for "Mitchell Vitez" in quotes, I find a cross-coutnry athlete and a competitor in academic quiz tournaments. I haven't found any primary or secondary sources on the Vitez helix except what's in the Wikipedia article. That that name is used for this concept would require a secondary source. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:22, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per David Eppstein. -- 202.124.73.209 (talk) 00:44, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Unfortunately, "no claim of notability" is not a speedy for "things", only persons, musical groups, corporations, and web sites. I don't know if it's a WP:HOAX, but it's not an obvious one, so not speediable. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not a hoax; I suspect it's just a case of someone not knowing that Wikipedia has a policy forbidding original research. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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