Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Umberto Bartocci
WP is not about quality of arguments, correctness of arguments, or validity of arguments – it is about notability. When arguments are false, or biased, and have enough media coverage, a WP article can help clarify their validity. The WP guideline on |fringe theories is essentially that coverage “should not make a fringe theory appear more notable than it actually is”. Here I think enough independent coverage exists. It should be noted that Bartocci is a historian of mathematics, not the proponent of the theory (equation). Bartocci is the one making the historical argument of precedence by De Pretto; a credible one in my view, in historical terms, even though De Pretto seems to have arrived at the equation almost by chance. The point made by David Eppstein is more critical. However, I am not entirely convinced that The Guardian is the only reliable source. Moreover, the coverage on The Guardian was in 1999, and we have several news articles in between, ending in 2008 – that is nearly 10 years of coverage. Finally, the results of this http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=%22Umberto+Bartocci%22 Google Books search seem to provide further evidence of notability
— User:Eric, 15:06, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:FRINGE (Wikipedia:Fringe theories)