Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexey's Fallacy
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The result of the debate was delete. -R. fiend 15:22, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
trivial, dubious name --Trovatore 04:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, we've all seen "proofs" like this, but I never heard this name for them, and a cursory Google search doesn't find it. Maybe there's somewhere it can be merged/redirected, otherwise please delete. --Trovatore 04:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I believe this topic is already covered at Division_by_zero#Fallacies_based_on_division_by_zero. Delete unless evidence is provided that someone named Alexey was first to discover this proof, in which case merge and redirect to Division by zero. --Metropolitan90 05:11, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. If you take the last step of his "proof" and divide by "n", you get a very-well-known proof that 2 = 1. --Carnildo 21:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Should be in Division_by_zero. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:45, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or Merge and redirect — seems to be covered in Division by zero. Andrew pmk | Talk 02:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- delete or merge/redirect per Metropolitan90 linas 00:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or merge/redirect per Metropolitan90. Paul August ☎ 04:46, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Not the common name for this fallacy, which is already explained in Division by zero, as Metropolitan90 says. Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect if you must, but I thought it was an interesting enough topic.
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