Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elliptical polarization

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The result of the debate was KEEP. &mdash; J I P | Talk 15:27, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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)
 * Keep or redirect to polarization. It is conceivable that someone would search for this term. Pburka 02:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * Redirect to polarization. --Apyule 13:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * Redirect to polarization. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * Keep ··gracefool |&#9786; 18:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it is worthy of its own short article Salsb 12:30, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Piecraft 13:53, 26 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.