Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basic mathematics


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result of the debate was Redirect. Voice of All  Talk 22:08, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Basic mathematics
I am nominating this article for deletion because it is just incorrect and probably does the reader more harm than good.., containing such assertions as: Mathematics is a process which involves a string of integers or Every application of mathematics relies on the four basic operators of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Mathematics, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division have their own articles, anyways. --Mysidia (talk) 04:00, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but cleanup it is an inherently notable article but needs work. Molotov (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]]  04:04, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * OK I started rewording it and cleaned up the definition but when I got to the sections I realized that they're already covered on their individual pages (and much better so) which was stated by the nominator. What's more is that it should really just redirect to Arithmetic or Elementary arithmetic, because that's the more correct name. I've edited it down to a (fairly) easy to read definition, but I don't really think that's even needed. Please check the history if you want to see the original.  freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 05:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The subject is clearly arithmetic. If "basic mathematics" is actualyl commonly used to refer to arithmetic, then redirect. Otherwise, delete. JPD (talk) 09:03, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to elementary arithmetic or arithmetic; it clearly says "Basic mathematics is also known as Elementary arithmetic or simply Arithmetic" in the article, or something to that effect. -- NSLE (Communicate!)  09:48, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I wrote that. The original article was quite a bit longer, and less clear before I cleaned it up.  freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 10:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Elementary mathematics. A redirect to arithmetic would be misleading; calculating with numbers isn't doing mathematics. Pilatus 11:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per NSLE Marcus22 14:33, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Elementary mathematics as per Pilatus. However, I note that that article is currently at sub-stub status. Capitalistroadster 17:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Elementary mathematics. --Holderca1 18:44, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm.. would the redirect really be ideal? While the original article was discussing arithmetic, not basic mathematics -- both articles skip discussion of the most basic and fundamental ideas of them all; deductive reasoning -- if there's something it should redirect to, it's probably just Mathematics, which, of course, should say something about Elementary Mathematics, but Basic Mathematics seems like a much broader category ... --Mysidia (talk) 01:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)


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