Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Small complex rhombicosidodecahedron


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 03:40, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Small complex rhombicosidodecahedron

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Sourced to "three" sources which all link to the same page, which does not even name this polyhedron; all web search results appear to be either based on this article or fandom wikis like https://polytope.miraheze.org/wiki/Small_complex_rhombicosidodecahedron (arguably the better place for this). Does not meet WP:GNG. 1234qwer1234qwer4 22:24, 27 December 2022 (UTC) Relisting comment: Relisting as a Redirect was suggested but no target yet identified. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:32, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. 1234qwer1234qwer4 22:24, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Part of a large poorly-sourced polyhedron cruft-farm that badly needs cleanup. No sources found on Google Scholar, MathSciNet, or zbMATH under either boldfaced name; not notable as an example in research mathematics. I'm not even sure what exactly is being described here. It appears to be a system of polygons and star polygons that meet four to an edge, but that does not meet any of the many definitions in polyhedron. It is claimed to be an abstract polyhedron with a degenerate realization, but that appears to be inaccurate, as describing it as an abstract polyhedron would require additional information not present in the geometry (how to pair up the four faces that meet at each edge). —David Eppstein (talk) 00:02, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I do not think it has a name in the research mathematics literature, indeed. It is in Coxeter et al.'s 1954 paper on uniform polyhedra as 3 $5/2$ | 2. (If converted to Norman Johnson's terminology, this is a cantellated great icosahedron or cantellated great stellated dodecahedron.) OTOH, Coxeter et al. dismiss it as a degenerate case. They also cite it as occurring as V in Pitsch 1881. These mentions are probably not enough to hang an article on, but may be enough to redirect this somewhere (indeed, I could see it being added to the truncation sequence at great icosahedron, though it currently isn't there, just like how Coxeter et al. note that some expected cases are degenerate). But again, there is not any RS for the name, which seems to put the idea of redirection in question as well. Double sharp (talk) 03:06, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete based on my limited understanding of the math involved and what was explained above, it does not appear to be a "thing". I don't find any sources for this item. Oaktree b (talk) 03:38, 5 January 2023 (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.