Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Detrended correspondence analysis

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The result was keep. WP:SNOW -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:40, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Detrended correspondence analysis

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Incoherent mess of buzzwords, no sourcing found. Prod declined without comment. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Could the nom please clarify what is meant by "no sourcing found"? There are several items in the References section. –dlthewave ☎ 21:19, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

keep GScholar's very first hits on the phrase are a series of paper discussing the merits of the technique. I must confess I find the explanation opaque, however. Mangoe (talk) 21:47, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The paper that introduced the technique has over 4,000 GS citations. That's a clear sign of notability for any academic contribution. And GS finds over a thousand publications containing the exact phrase "detrended correspondence analysis" just since the beginning of 2017 [1]. XOR'easter (talk) 22:29, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 22:25, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 22:25, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The term has been in use, and appearing in the relevant literature, for forty years. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Plenty of sourcing, clearly important. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Keep. It's patently obvious that this is a notable subject in ecology. It's hard to write articles about statistical techniques that are totally accessible to a lay audience, but the fact that you don't understand an article isn't a good reason to delete it. – Joe (talk) 23:16, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. Easily notable. A quick WP:BEFORE would have prevented this. Anarchyte (work | talk) 01:51, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The heck. When did "I don't understand this topic" become a reason to nominate for deletion? Widely used method, good if not great sourcing (in direct contrast to the OP's statement). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:29, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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