The result was delete. ✗ plicit 01:10, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
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Clearly a fringe theory. The sources shake out as so: 1) things Duncan published himself, 2) unreliable blogs and websites, 3) passing citations of energy consumption in certain countries and unit conversions (which raises WP:OR and WP:SYNTHESIS questions), 4) the fairly nice IEEE Spectrum article, which mentions Duncan and the Olduvai theory only in passing. Additional links in "Further Reading" are either passing or mention the theory only in combination with the rest of peak oil. I suppose a merge to peak oil might be an option, but this has so many bad smells that I'd rather just delete it. Apocheir ( talk) 21:48, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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23:47, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
The result was delete. ✗ plicit 01:10, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
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Clearly a fringe theory. The sources shake out as so: 1) things Duncan published himself, 2) unreliable blogs and websites, 3) passing citations of energy consumption in certain countries and unit conversions (which raises WP:OR and WP:SYNTHESIS questions), 4) the fairly nice IEEE Spectrum article, which mentions Duncan and the Olduvai theory only in passing. Additional links in "Further Reading" are either passing or mention the theory only in combination with the rest of peak oil. I suppose a merge to peak oil might be an option, but this has so many bad smells that I'd rather just delete it. Apocheir ( talk) 21:48, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previously
nominated at AFD, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
✗
plicit
23:47, 10 February 2022 (UTC)