Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3.14

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The result of the debate was Redirect --Allen3 ^talk 13:18, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3.14

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068 was nominated for deletion on 2005-06-01. The result of the discussion was "delete". For the discussion see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068.

This doesn't seem encyclopedic, and it's probably not expandable. --Alan Au 22:23, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Pi. Joyous (talk) 22:31, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect per Joy Stovall. Flowerparty ^talk 23:47, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Pi, clearly. However, the nominator might note that this article is infinitely expandable!! -Splash 23:59, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete The Wikipedia naming conventions indicate that numbers in article titles refer only to dates. This should be deleted, and 3.14 (number) should redirect to Pi --malathion ^talk 00:12, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect as above. Although Wikipedia conventions may forbid numbered titles except for dates, having a redirect page for 3.14 is actually useful for people who keep typing "pie" or trying to find the symbol on their keyboard. 23skidoo 00:45, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to "Pie", er, Pi. --Idont Havaname 00:51, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Pi. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:07, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect as above, with a mention of how this tends to be the accepted trunkation of Pi in most American schools (thus making it encyclopedic, and also something that might be searched for/by). --InShaneee 02:17, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete 3.14 ≠ π Oleg Alexandrov 02:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Pi for readers and editors who are bad at math. android79 02:52, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Dada. Common guys, can't we just take the matter into our hands, delete or redirect, and worry about the consequences later? If we hit the three-revert-rule, then we can put it to a vote, and apply the force of bureaucracy then. linas 02:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• 'Redirect to Pi. I will yield no further though. 3.141 and beyond should simply be deleted. Wikibofh 03:40, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to pi. Some infidels think of pi as of 3.14, so the redirect is useful. -- Naive cynic 08:03, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Didn't the Pope once rule that pi was equal to three? Can't have all those irrational numbers floating around. ;-) Redirect as above. — RJH 14:17, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as the least bad option. Redirecting to pi seems to imply that they are equal and will lead to ridicule by mathematicians, and deleting confuses people that type 3.14 and want to find information on pi. The convention that numbers in titles refer to dates holds only for integers (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 15:39, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • What's worse, being ridiculed by mathematicians or not being able to help users that are less than skilled in math find the information they're looking for? android79 21:09, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
    • Best is it if we are not ridiculed by mathematician and we are able to help users less than skilled in maths. I think we achieve this if we keep the article with a text like "3.14 is often used as an approximation for pi". -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:21, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • But it someone types "3.14" in search, they're probably looking for information on pi. It seems to make more sense to add the "3.14 is often used as an approximation for pi" in the article on pi. Joyous (talk) 22:21, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
    • That is already in the article on pi, but it is so far down that the reader is unlikely to find it (and I don't think it should be much further up in the article). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 22:29, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
      • The fact that pi is approximated is explained in the article's introduction. android79 22:49, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
        • Well, I disagree, but seeing that I am alone and it is not that important, I think it's better to end this discussion. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 10:50, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect Probable and useful search phrase. Links to this page should be watched and edited, of course. Septentrionalis 18:12, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to pi, or perhaps more specifically, to section dealing with approximations. PrimeFan 20:34, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • I've been told that anchor redirects (for instance, to United States#External links) don't work in the current software. (I just tried it myself, but there could be some other way to do it.) A good idea, though – maybe in the next version of Mediawiki... android79 21:09, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
    • I tried your U.S. Ext. links anchor redirect example and it worked perfectly. I'm using Internet Explorer 6.0. PrimeFan 21:14, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Pi#Numerical_approximations_of_.CF.80, which works for me. —Theo (Talk) 13:30, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Redirect to Pi, if any mathematicians scream about it then 1) they haven't read the article, and 2) they're more anal than any mathematician I've ever met, that's for sure. Xaa 20:40, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

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