Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metre squared per second


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Metre squared per second

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The bundled deletion discussion got out of hand, so let's try again with the individual units which are clearly not notable. Although it is a combination of SI base units, the quantity it measures (specific relative angular momentum) is obscure enough that whatever notability that quantity has, there's not enough to trickle out to the unit that measures it. PianoDan (talk) 07:40, 11 December 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:49, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:30, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as this unit is pretty specific and an unnamed, derived unit. I don't think there is a particularly suitable merge topic because while the unit is more difficult to understand in its form here, in context – such as at Specific angular momentum – makes the unit more clear. As an alternative we could DABify, but I don't really love that as Viscosity seems to be listed as a suitable DAB entry in the article, but looking at the article for viscosity, I could not find a reference to this unit (or a similar unit). snood1205(Say Hi! (talk)) 14:43, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment it is also a unit for rate of change of area with time. 172.195.96.244 (talk) 05:53, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment (AfD nominator) Since this deletion discussion brought it to my attention, I went through and rewrote the Specific angular momentum article.  In doing the research for that, I realized that while it's a USEFUL concept, it's not terribly commonly used.  It doesn't turn up in most classical mechanics textbooks, since they primarily just use the full form of the angular momentum.  Given that, I'd say there's definitely not enough notability in this concept to pass on to the unit. PianoDan (talk) 16:31, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 18:56, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Viscosity where it is mentioned as a unit. But I think deletion is fine, too. As a plausible search term, I cannot imagine there would be many searches for metre squared per second. -- 00:51, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT and WP:DIRECTORY. Sure, we could find a bunch of independent sources covering this very specific SI unit, but this content is not useful for an encyclopedia. I disagree with redirecting to Viscosity because that is like having President of the United States redirect to Joe Biden; there are other quantities that have these units and it is not super helpful or clear to redirect to one of them in particular. Caleb Stanford (talk) 05:03, 23 December 2021 (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.