Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/April/14

Rename mathpublication-stub /

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The result of the debate was rename

As a result of a CFD last month, this stub's parent permanent category was merged into, following the pattern used for other per topic children of. At a minimum, rename the category to and as long as we're doing that, also rename the template to math-lit-stub. Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It was me that suggested creating the stub type in the first place, and I support renaming it, consistency is good. --Tango 12:40, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

On a tangential point, I note the use of the US English term "math" rather than the rest-of-the-world English standard "maths" (which, when you think of it, makes sense, since there's no such thing as a mathematic) - any chance of a redirect at maths-lit-stub and similar at any other math-X-stub types that don't have them? Grutness...wha?  00:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * One can be a polymath (indeed it helps if one is trying to help edit an encyclopedia as a whole, as opposed to individual articles), my Webster's New World Unabridged does note "mathematic" as a rare form of the noun and doesn't mention "maths" at all (because it's an old dusty dictionary), and finally according to the Online Etymology Dictionary We Americans coined "math" in the 19th century while Anglophiles didn't start using "maths" until the 20th. That said, I have no objection to using "maths-" in redirects to help out befuddled Commonwealthians. Caerwine Caer’s whines  01:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * One of these days, you should read about old Mr Webster. Not a nice piece of work, and someone who unilaterally and obsessively decided to remove a lot of "Britishisms" from the US - Websters dictionaries still avoid a lot of them. And polymath isn't really the same thing. I'd be surprised if maths isn't a far older term thatn 20th century, too - I have an 1880s dictionary which lists it as an abbreviation for mathematics (unlike "math", which it lists as meaning "to mow"!) But I digress... Grutness...wha?  06:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * A remarkably prescient dictionary; the OED quotes "maths" from 1911 onward, and has an 1891 use of "math" by a school poet, a Scot. Why can't we do what we normally do with Anglo-American divergencies: leave them alone? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 04:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd think that "adding a redirect to" is consistent with both "what we normally do" and "leaving [the template itself]" alone. Alai 23:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe we had this same discussion regarding mathematician-stub. math-bio-stub and maths-bio-stub are both redirects to the correct mathematician-stub.  As such, I would be in favor of mathematics-lit-stub with redirects at math-lit-stub and maths-lit-stub ~ Amalas  rawr  =^_^=  15:02, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
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unmerge Category:Lithuanian football biography stubs

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The result of the debate was upmerge

The stubs is not enough (43), and the cat is not proposed before. the Proposal in January is opposed/no aggrement on creating cat. Matthew_hk  t  c  19:41, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * This was brought up in passing at SFD last week when the equivalent category for Estonia was nominated. 43 stubs is borderline - upmerge would be reasonable - by comparison, Estonia had 38. Grutness...wha?  00:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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