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The result was delete. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 03:21, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Information forensics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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This is a somewhat complex AFD; basically, I want to delete this article but, as it is big and well established, I think it probably needs discussion.

Recently I have been working extensively on digital forensics topics and this is one of the articles that falls under it's umbrella.

The article was created in 2005 with the edit summary IF: a new field of research - in my searches for references (and personal knowledge of the field) I can find no real sourcing for this particular area of study.

The main reference I can find is this journal. After reading a few of the publications it seems that IF, in this sense, is simply used as a synonym for computer forensics and for digital forensics in general. A Google scholar search and a dig through Athens pulls up no reasonable citations to support this as a separate field.

Finally; the content that exists is mostly "fluff" - as best I can make out this is a very broad concept of "computer forensics as applied to human actions". Sourcing this is a nightmare. Very little of the content can be adequately sourced for merging into other articles.

Based on the above I would like to delete the article to

Sorry for the lengthy rationale :) Errant Tmorton166^(Talk) 21:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to computer forensics. Bearian'sBooties 03:07, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
• Merge the non-essayish, and any content that is actually in the referenced sources, to computer forensics. First Light (talk) 19:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. The article has zero referenced sources and is clearly an essay. I don't see any reason to try to cram any of this content into another article. Propaniac (talk) 16:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Just spent too much of my life trying to see if this was worth keeping. Insufficient coverage in secondary sources is my main gripe. Bigger digger (talk) 17:48, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos to Errant for the rationale though, I like a proper explanation! Bigger digger (talk) 17:50, 27 August 2010 (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.