Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basic matrix (mathematics)

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. Mailer Diablo 14:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Basic matrix (mathematics)

This article is innacurate and does not provide signifigantly better information than Matrix (mathematics) 48v 10:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• It is wrong of course but could be fixed and it is a rather neat simple way of introducing matrices. I'm inclined to say fix it and keep it. If others agree I'll fix it myself, but it is too late now. --Bduke 11:02, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • It is fixable, but I'm guestioning the value of repairing it because i think the example is a poor oversimplification of the simple uses of a matrix. I dont think it would be unresonable to use the basic concept, rewritten into a section of the arcticle Matrix (mathematics) if you feel that the information is really helpfull. Froiom the perspective of a mathematician this is a fairly useless example, but perhaps it would be helpful to those with less background on the subject. 48v 19:10, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as a duplication of Matrix (mathematics).It is fundamentally wrong in many places and not worth merging. Better to delete this and tag the better article for a more generalist presentation. --Peripitus (Talk) 12:59, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete—incorrect, and duplicates information already in Matrix (mathematics). Spacepotato 20:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Suspicious poorly written article, ever since I ran into it a while ago. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. -lethe ^{talk +} 23:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete might posibly be worth transwiking to wikibooks. --Salix alba (talk) 00:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Peripitus, Spacepotato, et al. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:13, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete. The article is wrong factually, typographically, and pedagogically. For example, to have a valid matrix product AB, the number of columns of A must equal the number of rows of B, yet this basic rule is violated repeatedly here. --KSmrq^T 01:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per all of the above. If rewritten from scratch, it just might make it to wikibooks. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Poor article with too many mistakes - and even if rewritten, I don't think it warrants an article on its own. Madmath789 07:32, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• strong delete. factually wrong. Even with a complete rewrite, it would not be encyclopedic content. There is no such thing as a "basic matrix" when compared to a matrix. Ubermichael 22:38, 12 July 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.