Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/253 (number)


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The result was keep. Consensus is for the article to be retained. North America1000 20:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

253 (number)

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 * Delete. This page should be deleted because there is no reason for a page to be in Wikipedia that says 253 is the number following 252 and preceding 254, and a semiprime. This article does not add any real value to Wikipedia or Wikimedia as a whole and should not be covered as it is not a notable number. WikiProject Numbers says it is covering the following whole numbers; "Integers: Continuous from −1 to 200. Multiples of 100 from 300 to 900, then multiples of 1000 to 9000. Afterwards, only powers of 10 (from 1 up to 10^12, higher than that only if they have a standard word name and commonly used SI prefix) and numbers with some remarkable mathematical property." Only number pages that can have a good amount of meaningful content on them should be created. This is the same argument as to delete 254, and pages for all other numbers greater than 200 should be deleted unless they are perfect squares, primes, powers of a number, or have an important mathematical quality. This meets none of these criteria, and such should be deleted promptly.TheGoldenParadox (talk) 02:08, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable per notable number paradox. Denarivs (talk)
 * Meh Deletion is clearly inappropriate.  I lean toward Keep, but Merge to a (combined)  would be acceptable.  Neither option is appropriate for AfD.   — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 03:42, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. As a figurate number, it is the ninth centered heptagonal number, the eighth centered enneagonal number , the seventh star number , the first nontrivial triangular number that is also centered heptagonal and the first nontrivial triangular star number . It is also very early on the list of numbers of 5-packed words, whatever those are , early on the list of third differences of eighth powers , and early on the list of numbers of 5-multiparking functions, whatever those are . A 3x3x3 grid has exactly 253 lines through pairs of points . I think that's enough somewhat-interesting and varied properties to pass WP:Notability (numbers). This is despite the fact that I disagree with the nominator in the other direction about moderate-sized primes being notable by themselves; there are lots of primes, so I don't think primality alone is enough for notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:05, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:06, 20 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - I'm convinced that the number has enough interesting properties. Smmurphy(Talk) 23:54, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting properties.  Clearly passes Notability (numbers) criterion 3: 253 is the smallest non-trivial triangular star number .  The comments above make a good case for passing the less rigorously defined criterion 1 too. Certes (talk) 15:49, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - It is a good sourced page, and meets notably guidelines. Gary &#34;Roach&#34; Sanderson (talk) 18:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.