Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geometric terms of location


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The result was   keep.  → Call me  Hahc  21  21:38, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Geometric terms of location

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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary, and this article contains only a short list of related words. The title is also not notable -- even if one wanted to find this set of words, one would probably not recognise this title as referring to them. Imaginatorium (talk) 16:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep at least while this is carefully thought about – plain deletion wouldn't be in my thoughts. We have plenty of glossaries and I can picture this being in Category:Glossaries of mathematics or merged with an article there. However, I don't think it should be merged with Glossary of classical algebraic geometry. On a different tack I note there is Anatomical terms of location (yes, I know...). Each item in the present list is notable (or its corresponding noun is) so can be considered as a list of notable topics. On the other hand, even with the narrow scope of the article, the list is very incomplete so merging into some larger, more ambitious topic would be sensible. Unless the article develops substantially (and it is still very new) it will not seem very appropriate. Finally, wikt:Appendix:Glossary of geometry could be created or the terms might be added into wikt:Appendix:Mathematics allowing deletion here. I'm not sufficiently familiar with things at Wiktionary to know if those are acceptable suggestions. Seven days at AfD is not a good way to consider things. Thincat (talk) 22:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:21, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment related to Thincat's observations: There are also articles on Relative direction and Cardinal direction. These are articles about the systems of positioning and locating, not glossaries of the terms used in those systems. I'm not sure whether such an article could be written about the system in which these geometric terms figure, but it seems possible that either a glossary or an article could be worthwhile. Cnilep (talk) 02:54, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I think this can be satisfactorily expanded. We should have an article where the various methods are all described in basic terms in a single place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs) 04:41, 29 March 2014
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