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The result was delete. SoWhy 12:01, 21 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. This seems to be at least somewhat visible — Google scholar found 59 academic works that cite it — but among them I didn't find any with the nontrivial and independent coverage needed to pass
WP:GNG. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 21:34, 27 June 2017 (UTC)reply
delete There is a huge number of useful tools which are free and used in the academia to some extent. I can name a dozen of
graph matching programs or
polygon triangulation packages off my head. They are given credit in scholarly papers which used them. But nobody makes big fuss about them just because they are free and used.
Staszek Lem (
talk) 16:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. I see relevance of NeuronDotNet as one of early generally accessible libraries for ANN modelling, especially in the .NET realm. It is notable for its emphasis on modularity, which adds flexibility in combining different architectures and training algorithms. This may be the reason that it found application in engineering, research and derived software. A number of references that I have hastily included in [
this version] (and were righteously, at least what concerns the way they were added, criticized by
User:Staszek Lem), indicate use in rather different applications and for different purposes, which somehow supports the claims related to modularity. Some secondary sources do cover the subject, though maybe not to large extent. I would say this situation is inherent in software libraries, where more popular attention is usually given to the more visible part, i.e. applications. --
Ajgorhoe (
talk) 03:40, 1 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SoWhy 08:46, 5 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SoWhy 13:47, 13 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete though unfortunately. It was one of the early .NET ANN libraries (I remember a classmate who was trying to use this). However, as far as I remember it was not very popular. I am not sure how do we fulfil
WP:GNG in cases of software, (unless we are talking about
OpenCV or
TensorFlow). If I compare with something similar such as iTextSharp (iText for C#), I don't see any article for that (though there is a small mention in the main iText article). Google Scholar shows a handful of citations but nothing in any tier-1 conference like ICML, AAAI and others. (I apologise if I missed any paper from these). I don't think it was very popular though.--
DreamLinker (
talk) 20:10, 19 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Seeking opinions Hello
Piotrus,
Staszek Lem,
David Eppstein and
Ajgorhoe. Although, I have already voted above, I would be happy to change my vote to a merge/redirect if a suitable article can be found.--
DreamLinker (
talk) 20:19, 19 July 2017 (UTC)reply
I understand your desire to retain info about this tool. It is not like some kind of overhyped startup or minor android applet. The library was really used in the academy, as we see the credits in academic articles. Nowever you have to find independent refs with some substantial info, not simple mentions:, in order to justify its inclusion somewhere, per
WP:NOT ("not a collection of miscellaneous information").
Staszek Lem (
talk) 20:41, 19 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Thank you for your explanation. The
WP:NOT is a useful page to read. After looking again, I will think I will stay with my original delete vote. I also looked again at the publications which have cited this, but I am not very impressed as some of the publication seem to be in predatory journals.--
DreamLinker (
talk) 07:26, 20 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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