Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Math Sandbox




 * 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The result of the discussion was Moved to Sandbox/Mathematics, deletion nom withdrawn. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Math Sandbox
Completely unnecessary, you can test at Sandbox. 4 T C 07:05, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Actually utile - furnishing exemplars of how to present formulae in WP. Would renaming to "Math exemplars for use by editors" be better at that point?   I suggest this is one of those weird exceptions made in order to prevent people pulling their hair out in their own sandbox reinventing the wheel .  Collect (talk) 12:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep or redirect to sandbox, isn't doing any harm, though I can understand the redundancy argument. It's linked to from Manual of Style (mathematics) and Help:Displaying a formula. Graham 87 13:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 *  Keep Move to Sandbox/Mathematics. Sandbox play is not just for the player to learn.  One also learns by watching.  Having a separate sandbox for maths markup makes sense.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree with Black Falcon. If all the technical/specialist sandboxes are subpages of Wikipedia:Sandbox, it makes them much easier to discover initially and find again later.  Perhaps a link to a page listing all such sandboxes belongs at Wikipedia:Sandbox (newcomers can't be expected to know Special:PrefixIndex).  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If kept, move to Sandbox/Math or Sandbox/Mathematics, which would make it easier to navigate to the general sandbox and would introduce new users to the existence of subpages. –Black Falcon (talk) 23:44, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I'll now change my vote to move per Black Falcon. 4 T C 02:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Looking at the subpages of Wikipedia:Sandbox, I see a number of things far less worthy than Wikipedia:Math Sandbox. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:53, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I deleted a few of those pages as months-old test pages used by only one user and with no incoming links, and two others as unambiguous copyright violations. Most of the remaining pages are associated with a failed/rejected proposal to archive the sandbox, a chess game, or a word association game—in other words, they do not seem to meet any of the speedy deletion criteria, although deletion via MfD may be appropriate for a few. The chess game, in particular, could possibly be useful for testing wikitext to be used in chess-related articles, though I'm not sure whether it's actually being used for that purpose. –Black Falcon (talk) 06:19, 8 February 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.