Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Linas/Lattice models




 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was keep. @harej 00:11, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

User:Linas/Lattice models
Various WP:NOT: WP:NOTSOAPBOX, WP:NOTBLOG, not a place for original mathematical research. Twri (talk) 20:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - while I'm not usually in the business of deleting things in userspace, I think this is generally inappropriate; Wikipedia is simply being used as a vehicle through which the user is publishing his original research. //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Have you notified the user, or discussed it with him. It comes out of a long discussion in August and September 2006 on his talk page which is now archived. It might well be a forgotten basis for an article. I have notified Linas. Keep for now. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  02:21, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's nothing wrong with an established editor keeping such things in user space.   Wknight94  talk  02:58, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a discussion by multiple editors (did you not see the signatures?), not an article. Pcap ping  10:16, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per arguments of Pcap and Wknight94. Ulner (talk) 11:49, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. The goal of the Wikipedia project is to produce an encyclopedia. I am surprised that the nominator thought that this discussion would be an effective way to further that goal.  —Dominus (talk) 13:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Valid use of userspace, and the fact that it is substantially an archive of his UT page reinforces its ability to remain in userspace.  Absent a solid reason for deletion, and presented with affirmative reasons to Keep, the choice is Keep. Collect (talk) 17:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as reasonable, given that it's in the userspace. CRGreathouse (t | c) 04:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 *  Delete . Refer to Alternative outlets.  This page, unlike Wacky thoughts, is too specific and detailed to be here to help us understand the editor.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. As per Linas below, as well as Bduke above, previously missed, this page is not unrelated to the project.  Apologies, Linas.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Inform -- Next time, could someone please inform me, so that I have an opportunity to save the content before it gets deleted? Several comments: 1) this is not original research, it is a a review of some fairly 'well-known' mathematics; it was a discussion provoked during the edit of an article, where a young student did not understand some of the content, and I tried, as best I could, answer his questions.  2) I view this nomination as yet another 'drive-by shooting'. I've almost certainly made more article-space edits than most people involved, the vast majority being thoroughly uncontroversial. Yet, the current wikipedia culture seems to encourage rampant and uncontrolled attacks from admins and other disinterested bystanders who seem to be able to provoke, attack, and ban users with impunity. This kind of behaviour is driving away capable editors. I have watched any number of college professors (including a few top-flight profs from ivy-league schools) and capable, bright grad students driven away by this kind of hooliganish behaviour. You wikipedpia regulars need to figure out how to thin the ranks of the admins and article deletion nominators and other troublemakers, you have got to get your organisational and command structure reformed, and get to a point where subject-matter experts aren't wantonly attacked and provoked on a regular basis.  linas (talk) 22:34, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: The above comment should probably be counted as keep. CRGreathouse (t | c) 16:56, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Paul August &#9742; 23:16, 13 January 2010 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.