The result was delete. NW (Talk) 17:16, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Article is unsupported by any reliable sources. The article topic is not notable enough for reliable sources right now. It does not seem that this topic should be in the wikipedia at present- multiplicative hash functions are two a penny.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 22:36, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I am the author of MurmurHash (Austin Appleby). MurmurHash is "brand new" as far as hash functions go - people have been coming up with them for decades - and has seen only a few references in academic material so far. That said, it is in fact a significant improvement over previous algorithms and has been embraced by a number of open- and closed-source projects - both the ones mentioned in the article, and in internal projects at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, and no doubt others. A number of these projects discovered MurmurHash through browsing Wikipedia.
I did not create the Wikipedia article and I've avoided making any significant edits to it due to being unsure whether that was acceptable behavior here, but if the primary complaints here are that the article is insufficiently meaty then I'd be more than happy to elaborate on why MurmurHash happens to be considerably faster and more effective than previous hashes - the topic would touch on aspects of modern processor pipelines as well as statistical tests derived from cryptanalysis.
Given another year or so I'd expect that enough people might encounter MurmurHash to earn it an article in Dr. Dobbs or Linux Journal or whichever sources are considered sufficiently reliable. In the meantime the algorithm exists in a state much like a mathematical proof - it exists, it has been published, and its properties are easily and objectively verifiable. I am a professional and experienced software developer and not a dedicated researcher, and since MurmurHash was a product of necessity and not formal research it was not presented first via a technical journal nor submitted to peer review before publication. I published it using the most expedient means necessary and assumed that users would eventually either refute or confirm my claims - most all have been confirmed, with a few caveats regarding performance on older chip architectures.
If the above qualities are insufficient to qualify MurmurHash for a Wikipedia article, then I will be rather disappointed by its deletion - the article has proven to be a useful point of reference for software engineers and researchers, and removing it would seem to me to be a step backwards. Aappleby (talk) 22:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]