Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Relativistic mass distortion


 * 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   redirect to Mass in special relativity. Cirt (talk) 04:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Relativistic mass distortion

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This article is a redundant collection of Mass in special relativity, General relativity etc.. No references were included and no Wikipedia articles refer to it. D.H (talk) 15:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment. If that is the case, just redirect it to mass in special relativity or something like that. No need to delete it. --Itub (talk) 19:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Itub. Nothing in the history is so pernicious that it needs to be blanked; the redirect is not ambiguous or likely to cause confusion. It's tempting to take this sort of thing to AfD when you're worried about a possible edit war with the creator, but really, it's not what AfD is for. --Trovatore (talk) 20:54, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well it's not simply a redirect case, because it contains stuff on both general and special relativity. So a redirect to mass in special relativity is not appropriate. --D.H (talk) 21:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I missed that point, but it doesn't change much — you don't need to care about the current content of the article when you're redirecting. All that matters is the title. I think a redirect to that article from this title should be fine. --Trovatore (talk) 21:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete or Redirect My first reaction is to simply delete per the nominator's comments. A redirect seems unnecessary since the title does not strike me as a phrase that is going to be typed into the search bar very much. But keeping as a redirect isn't going to do any harm, I guess, so that's acceptable. Joshua Davis (talk) 01:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect: What Joshua said.Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 10:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete as an unsourced personal essay. If redirected (probably not necessary), Mass in special relativity is the current target for the relativistic mass redirect. - Eldereft (cont.) 20:00, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Serves no purpose and also contains some errors. S  B Harris 00:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is no such scientific term as relativistic mass distortion. So the redirect will be not only useless, but misleading. Some parts of this article seems to be OR. There are no sources. The terminology used in this article does not comply with conventions of the modern science. I agree with User:Eldereft that the article is a personal essay. So I think I gave plenty reasons to delete this article. Ruslik (talk) 13:57, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect, not delete. A google search confirms that the term "relativistic mass distortion" is used on (very rare) occasions--e.g., when people have referred their friends to this very article. So a few people will actually go to this exact page trying to find information about "relativistic mass distortion". These people will be ill-served by finding a nonexistent page. They will be very well served by being redirected to Mass in special relativity. Having the page be a redirect doesn't mean we're endorsing the phrase "relativistic mass distortion" as a legitimate scientific term, and I don't see how anyone would interpret it that way, especially not if they read through the article to which they're redirected. In conclusion, I believe there's a minor but legitimate reason to redirect, and no reason not to. --Steve (talk) 22:09, 7 October 2008 (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.