Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saber's Beads

Saber's Beads

Neologism being promoted by the selfsame Saber; original research. Infrogmation 23:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, a Geocities page is not a reliable source. Baily's beads, by contrast, cites NASA and a noted science museum as sources. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Note, incidentally, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saber (Musician). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Likely conflict of interest, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saber (Musician).--Húsönd 23:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, self-promotion, citing own website. Claimed recently discovered, but if the effect discussed is real, it is likely to have another name as lunar observation has occurred for hundreds of years. --Dual Freq 00:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- per nom, and above. Ho-hum. Bubba hot ep 00:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as original research. --Carnildo 01:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. --Kf4bdy ^talk ^contribs 03:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all of the above. --Ginkgo100 ^{talk · e@} 03:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The first canonical mention of Saber's Beads made was by a Richard Kone from British Columbia ('Targets Not To Miss', Astronomy Sept 06). The magazines Astronomy, Amateur Astronomy, and the Reflector (as well as moonsighting.com) all find the rarely observed phenomenon worthy of mention. Stephen Saber, an accredited observational astronomer and author http://www.geocities.com/saberscorpx/home.html http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/master/mastrwn.html, was the first to note the exceedingly thin limb's staggered brightness peaks' similarity to those seen during a total solar eclipse. This is not a promotional attempt, except to appreciably boost the search for very young/old crescents and encourage Lunar observing in general. It was those from the astro community that nominated the term in the first place. It is now becoming mainstream. WK should appreciate the entry at its inception.

Thanks anyway. -Saberscorpx