The result was no consensus.
Consensus is not clear here, hence the close. Even those advocating keep admit mostly that the notability is weak but yet exists. While this means that the article will not be deleted at the moment, it also means that there was no consensus to keep it, just none at all. Merging this and other similar articles into a new article seems to be a possible solution on which people !voting both keep and delete seem to be able to live with. Regards SoWhy 09:31, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Deprodded. Sources do not indicate notability (mostly just briefly mention it), talk page discussion of "What's the point of this?" has been stalled for years. Reason that this formula is important or useful has never been shown. - Richfife (talk) 06:23, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I struck through my above comment of "Strong keep" as User:Hans Adler convinced me otherwise. I think I will stick to a keep but I agree that we need a publication on this (by the way, we don't seem to have any publications on the above mentioned articles (by User:Gandalf61) so I don't see why it is absolutely necessary to have a publication but at least it will clear up some doubts). --PST 16:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. An entry in OEIS means nothing. They accept literally anything. I knew someone that was on the editorial board for years, and as long as the sequence made sense (perhaps after intensive inquiry and fixing by him), it would get included. So there are only two sources. MathWorld and Prime Pages. The first means nothing also, particularly given Weinstein's mistaken impression about notability from the mailing list mentioned by Primehunter, someone who, incidentally, knows quite a bit about finding primes. As for Prime Pages, I don't know about the notability of a mention there, but according to what Primehunter said, it only gets mentioned there because some people on the mailing list searched and found some. certainly there is nothing to justify the claim that carol numbers "suit certain methods of proving primality" or are a "hunting ground for large prime hunters" (anymore than any collection of 'not obviously composite' numbers is a hunting ground'). Such claims should be justified by either personal expertise or by reputable sourcing. I see neither. --C S (talk) 18:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]