Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people that mastered Calculus at an early age


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The result was Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-18 08:44Z 

List of people that mastered Calculus at an early age

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Unconcise (why specifically "high school teacher", etc.), hard to maintain, useful? Icemuon 18:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete What, are we supposed to go back in time and give calculus tests? There is very likely already a List of notable math prodigies or some such thing, anyways. --Brianyoumans 18:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The correct location is in fact the List of child prodigies, which has a section for mathematicians. If there is any useful material in the article, it could be moved there. --Brianyoumans 02:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is really, really silly. What is an "early age"? What is the definition of "mastered"? What is the definition of "Calculus"? Does it include analysis? What about vector calculus? Do non-mathematicians or non-scientists qualify if they mastered calculus at an "early age"? Unverifiable. No thanks. --N Shar 20:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as unreferenced original research The article appears to be unreferenced original research and uses a somewhat subjective and arbitrary method for inclusion.  So appears to probably violate WP:V and WP:OR.  I should note, though, that it doesn't violate WP:NOT#IINFO since that section of policy is quite specific about the types of information it covers and "trivia" isn't one of those items. Dugwiki 20:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete with clever math pun of your choice - Unverifiable, POV-ridden. If god forbid this is kept it should be moved to List of people who mastered calculus at an early age for correct capitalization and because people are who and not that. But seriously, destroy the aticle. Otto4711 20:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, how about - "This antiderivative list takes us to the limit and shouldn't be integrated into Wikipedia?" :) Dugwiki 23:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. OR, impossible to maintain. 23skidoo 21:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above arguments. Jefferson Anderson 22:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. What is an "early age"? Also, what counts as "no teacher"? If you had someone who gave you some help with the books but no formal education does that count? How much help can you get? I cannot see that the conditions for inclusion on this list are well-defined. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above arguments. teb728 08:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indiscriminate information of no substantial value. And now a brief bout of egomania: I started calculus at 12, had the basic principles clearly under my belt by 13, and was also studying Taylor series by age 15, so I should be on the list. Not only that, but so were at least half my friends, so they should all be on the list too. And by 16 everyone in my maths class was doing Taylor series: not difficult. ( Sorry for that, just had to get it off my chest ! )WMMartin 17:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's probably the reason for the mysterious exclusion of people who were taught by a high school teacher but not a university professor. --teb728 22:13, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. Everyone pretty much said everything. Glitterglue 03:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - unverified and inherently fails NPOV policies - "mastered" and "early age" are relative terms. QmunkE 12:35, 17 February 2007 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.