Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Information-theoretic death
As documented in my https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information-theoretic_death&oldid=724561348 long version of this article from yesterday, information-theoretic death credited to Merkle appears in five papers about death in peer-reviewed medical journals, and two scholarly (not popular) books about death in medicine, whereas the term occurs in only three papers about cryonics in peer-reviewed journals. I think there's a bit of a "fruit of a poisonous tree" problem here. Mainstream venues that consider the information-theoretic concept of death worthy of mention, discussion, or utilization (e.g. such as considering extent of information-theoretic survival of recipients of stem cell therapy for severe neurodegenerative disease), and that reference cryonics for originating the concept, seem to taint the idea as "just about cryonics." In my defense re repeated references, every repeated reference in the long version of the article was necessary to support statements that would otherwise have been challenged, usually with unique quoted text from the reference to support the statement citing it. I have no simple defense against the claim of  in my long version because while I may be a subject matter expert
— User:Jytdog, 02:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SYN (Wikipedia:No original research)