Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William T. Kane
per  and , although it also seems that the subject does not pass  or . Is there maybe a  issue here? The article presents a garbled view of things but there seems to be an underlying grain of truth. Someone named William T. Kane, of U. Missouri, really did publish an article about a FORTRAN analysis of sediment grain, but it was in 1963 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1963.tb01201.x. The Google Books link for that claim, to the ''Geological Survey Bulletin'', really does mention Kane and a FORTRAN program for sediment analysis, but it's just an index entry, insufficiently in-depth to use as a source for anything. And the metadata page for the Google Books link really does say that it's from 1949, but Google often lists compilations from periodicals by their start date even though many parts of the compilation may be from much later. A competent editor would have noticed the mismatch and dug deeper to find out the real story; this one just spewed back what they read without thinking about whether it made sense. For a similarly garbled-looking story, see another creation by the same editor, Mabel Norris Reese
— User:David, 03:42, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:TNT||WP:GNG||WP:PROF||WP:COMPETENCE (Wikipedia:Verifiability)