Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Math Trail at Mills College

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 of the debate was Delete --Gareth Hughes 15:44, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Math Trail at Mills College

Delete Not Wiki Bugturd 18:59, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as unencyclopædic. Tonywalton  | Talk 19:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Why? I cannot understand,

This is a guide to a Math Trail at Mills College

Tara Emami 19:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NOT. --Aaron 19:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC) Upgrading my vote, see below. --Aaron 19:18, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete. Appears to be blatant copyvio of PDF at [1]. --Aaron 19:18, 27 January 2006 (UTC) Removing my vote for now; see comment below. --Aaron 20:21, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: I have got the document form the author,

The Trail has been created by "Ron Lancaster" who is a known Math teacher in Ontario Canada,

He has also created some other math trails in several cities world wide and I hope we can get all of them to Wiki.

He owns all the rights to this one and has agreed to put it in Wikkipedia (I have already sent him the GNU Free Documentation License).

Tara Emami 19:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• I'm not taking anything away from his (or your) work, but it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia--Bugturd 19:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: Per WP:BITE, I'm going to ask some admin friends to take a look at this, and see if it can't be made Wikiworthy. I don't know if it can be, but it won't hurt to get some experts to take a look at it. Pending the outcome, I'd like to request we put a hold on this particular AfD. I figure we'll have a consensus on the copyright/Wikiworthy issues in less than 24 hours. Thanks. --Aaron 20:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• delete; not an encyclopedia article, and not an encyclopedic topic. Brighterorange 21:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete per CSD A8, or delete. A noble effort by Aaron, but a doomed one. This article has negative-numbers value on Wikipedia unfortunately. Harro5 22:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
  • This is NOT an A8. The source is celarly not a commercial content provider, and ther is a claim of permission. DES ^(talk) 23:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Gentle Delete. Not an encyclopedia article. Not an attempt at an encyclopedia article. Not even something that could be blanked and rewritten as an encylopedia article. This belongs on the webpage of either the school or the person who created it, not in an encylopedia. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 22:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• This article as it stands is completely unencyclopedic. A brief article describing the "Math trail", indicating who erected it and why, and what the reactions/results/effects have been, particualrly if it can cite independant media coverage, might be encyclopedic. It should probably not include any of the puzzles/questions; possibly one as an example. it probably should mention the kinds of problems included, their level of diffuculty, areas of math involved, etc. Delete unless totally rewritten. DES ^(talk) 23:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not the correct place to position such information. I suggest you use a web hosting service, such as Freewebs. SYCTHOS^talk 00:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or userfy this pleasant but unencyclopedic essay. Lewis Carroll, author of A Tangled Tale, which is also an entertaining chain of math puzzles in narrative form, would have enjoyed it. The text of A Tangled Tale wouldn't be acceptable as a Wikipedia article, either. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Not an encyclopedia article. An example of a type of exercise that might be worthy of it's own article (or might already have one, me not a math guy). --Wtwilson3 05:37, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NFT. Stifle 19:16, 28 January 2006 (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.