Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lecnac (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. --Core desat 03:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Lecnac
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I have nominated this article for deletion, since there appears to have been no change in the circumstances described in the previous nomination 3 years ago in terms of notability. I would argue that the term is not notable (outside of a single mathematical text) and by its very nature is not verifiable. Notably the article has been tagged as needing sources for over a year, to no avail. I can find no evidence that the term is in common use (despite being a teacher in Worthing, where the term was supposedly coined) and being familiar with the Mathsphere products. I notice, too, that many of the arguments for keeping in the previous discussion were invited by non-users. Tafkam 21:02, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, fails WP:V. Ten Pound Hammer  • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?) 21:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, nothing found in Google Books, Google Scholar, or Google News Archive searches. Cute term but if there were a real need for it, it would be in more widespread use. --Dhartung | Talk 21:17, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, The article claims it is used by one small set of teachers. Hardly sounds encyclopedic. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim  21:28, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Dhartung. Insufficient evidence of notability. Jakew 21:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a badly written non-notable article that probably isn't true. —  Wen li  (contribs) 02:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unsourced and non-notable. Gandalf61 10:39, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even the rationale given for coining this neologism is flawed. We can ""lecnac" a fraction by multiplying through by (1/3) / (1/3), for instance – and that gives the same result as "cancellation". DavidCBryant 11:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per DHartung, above. It may be in widespread use, but it is unsourced and appears to be unsourceable.  Consider keeping only if evidence of third-party sources is produced.  -- Dominus 18:03, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable at best. Paul August &#9742; 04:00, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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