Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/786 (number)

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 speedy keep. This article is clearly going to be kept, so it is not necessary to wait five days to close the discussion. – Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:08, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 786 (number)

Non-notable number Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:46, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• keep notable meaning in Islam, it seems. See article for details. Youngamerican 01:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Any meaning in Islam would best be merged with more appropriate pages. -- Necrothesp 01:59, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: seems about as notable in Islam as 666 (number) is in Christianity. —Wahoofive (talk) 02:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• keep, highly notable. Pages cannot be merged if deleted. Kappa 03:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Not so, actually. It's possible to do a history merge, or use one of several tricks to merge and leave no article behind. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Highly significant in Islam it seems a search for 786 Islam got nearly 175,000 results on Google see [1]. Capitalistroadster 03:31, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Capitalistroadster --JAranda | watz sup 03:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep helps counter systemic bias. Jacqui ^{★ 03:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)}
• Strong Keep because it has more than three (3) properties, not to mention all of its prime factors are Chen primes and Sophie Germain primes. Giftlite 05:32, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • That's probably true of a lot of composite n < 18361. Anton Mravcek 20:47, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. the article clearly establishes the significance of this number. u p p l a n d 07:30, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Numbers in this range are usually not encyclopedic, but the mentioning in the Quran makes this number one of the notable exceptions. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: for above reasons. --Bhadani 14:20, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The number is given with precision in the sacred texts of Islam and has been the subject of scholarly theological scrutiny. PrimeFan 15:58, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy keep. Honestly, is someone reading the mailing list? They spew some irrational bile about how all AfD nominations consist of "non-notable [whatever]", and then here y'all are, nominating articles because "non-notable", without explaining why! Is this some kind of sick self-parody? --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 16:12, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy keep, as a number with interesting properties it is entirely appropriate to have an article on it. Alphax ^τεχ 16:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep per Wahoofive. Very important number in Islam. flowersofnight (talk) 16:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, largely because of the religious meaning. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --Optichan 18:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Trollderella 20:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as this number is notable because it is important in the Islam. Carioca 20:31, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but needs cleaning up a bit. I don't think we need to know that it's between 785 and 787 either... - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 21:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Can you come up with a better dictionary definition with which to start every number article? Anton Mravcek 20:46, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep a notable number. Kingfox 22:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable for religious reasons. Xoloz 17:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• keep and please help to prevent systemic bias Yuckfoo 18:26, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Anton Mravcek 20:46, 4 November 2005 (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.