User talk:Ytreister

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AfD Nomination: Special triangle ratio‎
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Special triangle ratio‎ meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Special triangle ratio‎. Don't forget to add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last five days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, a neutral third party will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Why I nominated it
I am the editor who nominated your article Special triangle ratio for deletion. The reason I gave was:


 * This is an interesting try, and it kept me happy for an hour checking it out, but I'm afraid it it's rather something made up one day (the few Google hits are not about this), and the conclusion is wrong. There is an infinite number of such triangles, for any value of φ from 1 to the Golden ratio (1 + &radic;5 ) / 2 = 1.618 approx.; and they are not particularly special or interesting: not worth an article.

To give another example, the right-angled triangle with base 1 and hypotenuse (1 + &radic;5 ) / 2 is a "special triangle" in your sense.

You will find a link on the article page which will take you to the deletion debate. What happens now is that for five days any editor who wants can comment, and say "delete" or "keep", and at the end of that time an administrator will make a decision based on the consensus of view.

Don't be discouraged - it was an interesting start. JohnCD (talk) 22:22, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability of The Happy Minyan
A tag has been placed on The Happy Minyan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Russ (talk) 16:46, 19 December 2008 (UTC)