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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. ~ Amory (utc) 23:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maxwell's zombie[edit]

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Complete lack of appearance in scholarly literature means this is fringe at best, and I can find no discussion of it as such. Mangoe (talk) 22:41, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - No sources outside some fringe circles, agree with nom. byteflush Talk 00:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - no hits at all in Google Scholar either, suggesting that the cited sources are fringe. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:42, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, I checked references 7 and 8, they do not mention any Maxwell Zombies. (3 I can not access online, 4-7 do not seem to be peer-reviewed, and I did not check them). Looks like a neologism.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:20, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per above. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:58, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Zero in Google Scholar. Zero in JSTOR. One use of the term in Google News but that is a Tripadvisor photo of a drink, presumably of that name. I even tried searching "Maxwell zombie" and got nothing. This is not a thing. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:53, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. In spite of recent (July-August 2018 issue of American Scientist: [1]by the same author. This is not accepted science. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rec4062 (talkcontribs) 21:42, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, perilously close to a hoax. Guy (Help!) 22:03, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.