Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hyper generalized orthogonal Lie algebra
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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 01:03, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hyper generalized orthogonal Lie algebra
The article appears to be crank literature. I won't guarantee that there is no meaningful content in it, but I did take a course on Lie algebras in grad school, and I'm unable to decode this article as anything but nonsense. Bcrowell 23:35, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Weird. I took a course on Lie Algebra as an undergrad; it seems like this is talking about the symmetry groups of Newtonian and Lorentzian flat spacetimes. There are lots of things that mark this as crank literature, including the reference to "nonsense imaginary" factors, etc. etc... In any case, if it really is just about the lie algebra associated with the Galilean and Poincaré symmetry groups, it is covered elsewhere. If there is something more, it is cranky. Sdedeo 00:43, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- Comment. I remeber an article named something like this being deleted before. I'll ask on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics. --R.Koot 03:45, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- I ran into this before, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive9#Hyper generalized_orthogonal Lie_algebra. This article seems to have some sound math behind it, but it is horribly, horribly written. Nobody took the time to clean it up. Unless somebody promises to tackle it, I would think that having something so badly written is unacceptable. Redirect to Lie algebra for now. Oleg Alexandrov 04:16, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- I believe "new notation" is his way of saying "here is a new figure we haven't discussed yet," not "I have invented new mathematics." eg, a new definition. We're possibly looking at a mechanical translation of a Portuguese text. Collabi 05:33, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, unless someone can massively rewrite this to make some sense. This page just seems to be a collection of equations thrown together with no attempt to introduce concepts or to set up some coherent framework. The random addition of phrases like "new notation!" suggests that part of this qualifies as original research. ManoaChild 04:28, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Comment: a LACNIC search on the IP address reveals it to be in Brazil, and thumbing through the user's history we see that it has made a variety of somewhat accurate though syntactically tortured edits to a variety of algebra pages. I think this is a good-faith effort by a math student with some depth in algebra but a marginal grasp of the English language. It may be necessary to delete the page as it is hopelessly confusing. We should try to encourage this user to contribute to Portuguese wikipedia, but its history indicates that its hasn't touched anything since 22march2004 and so it's probably gone away. Collabi 05:30, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- He has actually contributed to the spanish wikipedia, and it contains a near duplicate of this acticle, except for the "New notation!" and some other sentences ending with an exclamation mark. --R.Koot 14:22, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Delete - having looked more closely, I agree about the signs of crankiness Sdedeo mentions. It's also suspicious that I can find no reference elsewhere to Hyper generalized orthogonal Lie algebra. Tearlach 18:28, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- Delete -Lethe | Talk 20:30, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
- Comment - Look at the history! This page has existed forever! How has it not been deleted yet?
- 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.
