Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Examples of vector spaces: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:17, 16 February 2022

Latest revision as of 16:58, 23 February 2022

(7 intermediate revisions by 6 users not shown)

Line 1:

<div class="boilerplate afd vfd xfd-closed" style="background-color: #F3F9FF; margin: 2em 0 0 0; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">

===[[:Examples of vector spaces]]===

:''The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. <span style="color:red">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's [[Help:Using talk pages|talk page]] or in a [[Wikipedia:Deletion review|deletion review]]). No further edits should be made to this page.''

{{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD|T}}

<!--Template:Afd top

Note: If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to re-nominate an article for deletion, you must manually edit the AfD nomination links to create a new discussion page using the name format of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PAGENAME (2nd nomination)]]. When you create the new discussion page, please provide a link to this old discussion in your nomination. -->

The result was '''keep'''. !Voters gave appropriate rationale for their arguments. As noted, sourcing definitely needs to be improved, and maybe a rename is in order, but these can take place outside of [[WP:AFD]]. <small>[[Wikipedia:NACD|(non-admin closure)]]</small> [[User:Rollidan|Rollidan]] ([[User talk:Rollidan|talk]]) 16:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

===[[:Examples of vector spaces]]===

<noinclude>{{AFD help}}</noinclude>

:{{la|1=Examples of vector spaces}} – (<includeonly>[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Examples of vector spaces|View AfD]]</includeonly><noinclude>[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 February 16#{{anchorencode:Examples of vector spaces}}|View log]]</noinclude> | [[Special:Diff/1071730555/cur|edits since nomination]])

Line 10 ⟶ 15:

*'''Delete''' per nom and [[WP:NOTTEXTBOOK]]. Plus we already have this content in brief under [[:Vector space#Examples]]. [[User:Ajf773|Ajf773]] ([[User talk:Ajf773|talk]]) 20:32, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

*'''keep'''. Good resource for research. [[:Vector space#Examples]] should give a short list of particularly informative examples but there is room in wikipedia for a more comprehensive (and advanced) list [[User:Robinh|Robinh]] ([[User talk:Robinh|talk]]) 21:17, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

*I don't think the deletion rationales so far really add up. This article is simply the expanded version (per [[WP:Summary style]]) of [[Vector space#Examples]]. The content in the separate article is just as encyclopedically relevant as the content in that section. There's nothing there there that's didactic, so I can't see how it could be a case of [[WP:NOTTEXTBOOK]]; if it were, then that consideration would equally well apply to the section in the main article. Is there anything I'm missing? – [[User talk:Uanfala|Uanfala (talk)]] 21:25, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

*'''Keep''' The concept of a vector space is obviously notable, and so a list of examples is, in principle, proper encyclopedia material. [[WP:NOTTEXTBOOK]] is a somewhat squishy rule in practice, as it can be hard to say if a given piece of technical content is too textbook-y. I think that for any reasonable drawing of that line, though, this falls on the good side. It's written much more like a reference to look up things within than a narrative to lead a student into a subject. An expansion of a section in another article is not redundant with that article. [[User:XOR&#39;easter|XOR&#39;easter]] ([[User talk:XOR&#39;easter|talk]]) 22:47, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

*Might be worth '''renaming''' [[List of vector spaces]]. "Examples" stinks of unnotability. [[User:Clarityfiend|Clarityfiend]] ([[User talk:Clarityfiend|talk]]) 07:01, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

*'''Keep''' [[:Category:Vector spaces]] exist. I agree, rename it to [[List of vector spaces]]. [[User:Dream Focus | '''<span style="color:blue">D</span><span style="color:green">r</span><span style="color:red">e</span><span style="color:orange">a</span><span style="color:purple">m</span> <span style="color:blue">Focus</span>''']] 15:42, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

* '''Keep''' I agree with XOR&#39;easter: a good encyclopedic article like [[Vector space]] should have a list of key examples; spinning that list out into a separate article seems very defensible. There is a potential for textbookiness, but I share the feeling that this particular article, as written, avoids it. Obviously the fact that there are ''no references whatsoever'' is not good, but that's a fixable problem (at a glance I think all the material is referenceable in principle). --[[User:JayBeeEll|JBL]] ([[User_talk:JayBeeEll|talk]]) 12:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

**I brought one reference over from [[Vector space#Examples]], so the cardinality of the set of references is nonzero. [[User:XOR&#39;easter|XOR&#39;easter]] ([[User talk:XOR&#39;easter|talk]]) 20:11, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

*'''Keep''' As per XOR&#39;easter. [[User:MrsSnoozyTurtle|''MrsSnoozyTurtle'']] 09:35, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

{{clear}}

:''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. <b style="color:red">Please do not modify it.</b> Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's [[Help:Using talk pages|talk page]] or in a [[Wikipedia:Deletion review|deletion review]]). No further edits should be made to this page.''<!--Template:Afd bottom--></div>