The result was transwiki. MBisanz talk 03:10, 19 January 2009 (UTC) reply
This was a fairly early addition to Wikipedia, probably inherited from an entry in the Jargon File. It's of dubious provenance, suggesting only that the term "Sagan" was only ever used as a joke quantity by a few hackers on Usenet. There is no evidence that the term entered common use either generally or in any specialized field, or is even common jargon on Usenet (it is not). The article was recently tagged for merge to Carl Sagan but it would not be appropriate there because of due weight and lack of reliable sources. TS 11:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Note the existence of
I have my suspicions as to Petersen's source. Uncle G ( talk) 13:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC) replyJulie K. Petersen (2002). "sagan". Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary. CRC Press. p. 836. ISBN 9780849313493..
The result was transwiki. MBisanz talk 03:10, 19 January 2009 (UTC) reply
This was a fairly early addition to Wikipedia, probably inherited from an entry in the Jargon File. It's of dubious provenance, suggesting only that the term "Sagan" was only ever used as a joke quantity by a few hackers on Usenet. There is no evidence that the term entered common use either generally or in any specialized field, or is even common jargon on Usenet (it is not). The article was recently tagged for merge to Carl Sagan but it would not be appropriate there because of due weight and lack of reliable sources. TS 11:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Note the existence of
I have my suspicions as to Petersen's source. Uncle G ( talk) 13:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC) replyJulie K. Petersen (2002). "sagan". Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary. CRC Press. p. 836. ISBN 9780849313493..