Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Axioms in school mathematics

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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 was delete. Coredesat 04:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Axioms in school mathematics

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My original {{PROD}} reason: Arbitrary list. Are we going to include the group (mathematics) axioms because they are studied in school? DePRODed by an anon. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 13:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete. Arbitrary list with subjective membership criteria. Not useful for navigation. Axioms listed are already included (and more correctly) in articles such as Euclidean geometry. Gandalf61 (talk) 13:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. and Gandalf61 - axioms are already covered in Axiom and links from there, there is no point to an article listing a subset, and no way to tell what different schools might cover. JohnCD (talk) 14:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Truths so universal, you don't need to cite to a lousy math book? Some of these are silly anyway-- "all right angles are congruent". Reckon that's why one 90° angle has the same degrees as the next 90° angle. Mandsford (talk) 17:22, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
    • No, it is not silly to say "all right angles are congruent". But the context needs to be there in order to understand why not. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete We have an article titled axiom. This is a poorly written article that contains nothing that should be in a separate article from that other one. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Paul August ☎ 04:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC) Per Michael.
  • Delete. "school mathematics" Makes no hint as to which school we're talking about, and without any source to provide the demarcation between "school mathematics" and other mathematics we have an original research problem. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:38, 29 January 2008 (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.