Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elliptical polarization

Elliptical polarization

This stub is almost a dictdef; subject already covered at length and in detail in Polarization (elliptical polarisation is somewhat of a tautology, since all forms of polarisation may considered elliptical in electrodynamics, as the stub itself states). Consequently, this article should be deleted. NicholasTurnbull 02:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep or redirect to polarization. It is conceivable that someone would search for this term. Pburka 02:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep in its present form. It is helpful to have a little stub like this explain what "elliptical polarization" means; if redirected, the reader would have to wade through a very long article to figure it out. "elliptical polarization" gets 35,000 ghits, so this exact phrase could well be something readers will search for. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:19, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to polarization. --Apyule 13:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep in its present form. Note that linear polarization is a limiting rather than special case of elliptical polarization. --JahJah 07:27, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to polarization. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Redirection in this case would be unhelpful, and almost certainly inappropriate, since polarization has so many different applications as shown in polarization. -Splash^talk 22:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep ··gracefool |☺ 18:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]