Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latitude and Longitude

On 29 July 2004, Latitude and Longitude was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. Rossami 00:19, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Re: Latitude and Longitude (now Latitude and longitude) Currently a disambig page offering a link each to latitude and longitude. Nothing links to it. I can't see any reason for it to exist. Delete? - TB 11:43, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. - UtherSRG 11:57, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I think this could be expanded to compare the two. Dunc_Harris|&#9786; 13:15, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Plenty of people, confused, might enter the terms. Keep, and possibly add comparison as per Dunc Harris. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 13:55, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
 * OK, I've taken a run at creating such an article. Certainly not my best work, since, while my body may be awake, my mind is not yet fully, but I think it's a reasonable 'proof of concept' of what the article could become. To de-orphan it, perhaps Ptolemy, and possibly the subjects mentioned in it (equator, prime meridian, etc.), could link to it. I guess I vote Keep, but won't lose a lot of sleep if it goes away. I've added a redir so that someone typing "latitude and longitude" will find it. Huh, the more I think about it, the more I think this is probably the right place to house info on the development of the system, rather than duplicating it at latitude, longitude, equator, prime meridian, etc. Niteowlneils 15:40, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * That looks really good- I concur, this can turn into a good article on the history & ideas behind the system. Keep. -FZ 16:29, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree - the new version's a keep - good work. - TB 21:02, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Definite keep now, but needs copyedit, admin-move to correct capitalisation at redirect page. Dunc_Harris|&#9786; 22:07, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Move done; also redir from Longitude and latitude. --Jerzy(t) 18:02, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)
 * Keep new version. SWAdair | Talk  05:00, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Kp. Not a typical title but (like my rename of Obverse to Obverse and reverse) a valuable way of specifying the natural scope of a topic. Hmmm. I was, IIRC, too much of an intimidated newbie, when i worked on North, to consider articles on North and south, and East and west, as my text perhaps invited. IMO, there should serious thought about how much refactoring w/ the related subjects others have mentioned should be done. --Jerzy(t) 18:02, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)
 * I don't see what the (new) article adds that is not already covered by latitude and longitude. Keep, but in my opinion, the article should just be a disambiguation page pointing to the two subpages.  Perhaps its separate existence would be more justified if it talked about how the two measurements first came together.  I dunno.  --Ardonik 05:05, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree that the article is not finished; yr keep vote is justified by the fact that the vote is about the reasonable potential, not the current content, of the article. --Jerzy(t) 16:41, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)
 * Comment: BTW, this is a handy place to ask this question: can anyone justify the suggestion, in some Web stuff on Al-Khwarizmi, that he, not the early Ptolemy, invented this scheme? Hmm, and were Western and Chinese grids independently developed? --Jerzy(t) 18:02, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)