Talk:Parry Moon

Is this an article on Parry Moon, or an article on holors?

109.239.38.169 (talk) 04:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Delete almost all material on holors?

MathSciNet has exactly 1 citation for the holor book. It is hard to find any references to it whatsoever. The Mathematical Reviews entry on the holor book is politely puzzled by the whole thing, concluding, "This may cause some readers to conclude that the work is not entirely in step with prevailing trends." Leaving aside self-references, reviews, and the like, there are only a tiny smattering of articles that use the word at all. Non-zero, but seemingly negligible. Of the three currently cited sources that use holors, two have themselves had essentially no impact and appear to be low-quality. The third, on rectangular FFT's, is more reasonable and does use the holor terminology, though it is only 3 pages long and subsequent work did not continue this usage.

Material that has had so little impact does not deserve roughly 13 paragraphs on Wikipedia. The original article on holors was deleted, and the only argument for keeping it was because the term was used in the same authors' earlier work, so it was convenient for some portion of Wikipedia to discuss the term. It seems to me the section has only been kept around because nobody cares anyway. My own interest stems from the fact that I stumbled across the holor book in a used book store, the title was interesting, but when I opened it I was shocked to find essentially no content whatsoever in roughly 400 pages.

A few sentences saying holors are just multidimensional arrays of numbers would seem to suffice. One could perhaps cite the Rivard FFT article's appendix for details, which is much clearer and briefer than Moon. 2603:8000:A300:983C:E5AC:D311:7980:FA8B (talk) 07:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

After waiting a day, I have now deleted almost all of the material on holors. 2603:8000:A300:983C:DD1F:721E:CA74:3F0C (talk) 06:18, 26 July 2023 (UTC)