Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Impossible Puzzle


 * 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 was delete. No prejudice against someone creating a category. W.marsh 18:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Impossible puzzle

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Impossible Puzzle was prod'ed (by me) but the tag was removed by an anon (who seems to be the article's creator, User:Independentdependent), who explains that the purpose of the page is to list the puzzles that are "impossible". Since the point of the page seems to be a dictionary defintion of a commonly understood phrase and to list puzzles with no solutions, this page should be deleted as it exemplifies what Wikipedia is not, in particular Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. (The puzzle that is so far listed on the page is better described on the puzzle's own page at the three cottage problem which will probably be moved to a better title) --C S (Talk) 22:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorify. Saw the prod yesterday, thought of endorsing but didn't. There ought to be a category (called something different -- perhaps "insoluble puzzles"). Such a category would include the N-puzzle, the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, the three cottage problem, et cetera. If kept, this article will turn into a list; I prefer categories to lists, so I'd suggest replacing this with a category. --N Shar 00:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is nonsense Paul 03:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorify per N Shar, though it is questionable how many non-trivial unsolvable puzzles there actually are. Pomte 04:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorify Useful category topic if there are actually a lot of these types of puzzles, but delete this. --The Way 05:52, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * strong delete, with a possible recreation as a category. What's there is not correct.  &mdash; Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 15:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorify  There are quite a bit of puzzles that are unsolvable, but do not have Wikipedia article, you can help out by writing more articles for impossible puzzles such as the ones listed above and Three cups problem.--Independentdependent 21:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as looks more like a definition than an article. I'm not sure I like the idea of creating the proposed category, but I'm not sure why. If I come up with more coherent thoughts I'll add them later. WMMartin 14:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


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