Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Route dependence


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The result was delete and redirect to Nonholonomic system.  JGHowes   talk  01:41, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Route dependence

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This is supposed to be the page Nonholonomic system, which is what path dependence (physics) redirects to. This page has no new information to include there, and from my experience as a physicist, no one calls it "route dependence", we will discuss non-conservative systems, path dependence, etc. Route dependence is, I assume, the author's own term. Most Google results for the term actually load the term "path dependence" outside of this article and its copies. Footlessmouse (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Footlessmouse (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Footlessmouse (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The Google book search does have a few results, several mention "route dependence of time". While I am pretty sure the term is not notable in the way it is used on the page, it could go either way and I'm fine with merging into nonholonomic system.Footlessmouse (talk) 20:30, 8 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete "Path dependence" is definitely the preferred term, we already have an article on that, and the content here would need serious rewriting before it could be merged, so simply improving the existing article makes more sense. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 21:10, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and improve existing article. Balle010 (talk) 02:17, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete This term has been used in the context of gravitational physics, e.g., the 1966 paper Route dependence of the gravitational red shift, but overall it did not catch on and is not well supported by multiple independent sources. Not a neologism, but not worth a redirect either. -- 02:47, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Nonholonomic system.--Srleffler (talk) 17:11, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to path dependence (otherwise nonholonomic system): I agree with the delete !votes here, but path dependence is a clear viable redirect target due to the synonym pair path/route. If "route dependence" is clearly a physics-specific term as a whole, then nonholonomic system is a more viable redirect target, but my searches turn up all kinds of subjects including: physiology, more physiology, [ https://doi.org/10.1248/cpb.25.680 pharmaceuticals], material chemistry, nutrition, air traffic logistics, general traffic logistics, etc. — MarkH21talk 01:51, 13 October 2020 (UTC)


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