Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bracket notation

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 04:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bracket notation

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The only reference this article gives is to a blog post by one Aza Raskin, son of Jef Raskin, which describes "bracket notation" but states that it was an idea of his father's and previously did not have a name. Later, in the Comments section, the blog's author admits to also being the original author of the Wikipedia article, implicitly identifying himself as the author of this revision. Given that this was only about seven months ago, and that other sources for the method of notation are lacking, it looks to me very much like original research and an attempt at self-promotion. Note that if the page is deleted, the redirect to Bra-ket notation which previously existed there should be restored. – Qxz 01:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. No assertion of any prior publication elsewhere, let alone notability or independent review. See WP:NOT#PUBLISH. --Shirahadasha 02:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless independent sources are located. JCO312 03:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, this is the sort of quirky old-Wikipedia article I have a fond spot for, but it does not meet WP:V standards. It's been popularized on some blogs in the last year but doesn't have any formal references in e.g. books. --Dhartung | Talk 07:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete As above. Somitho 10:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete/Redirect. One blog post is not sufficient for notability. But I would amend the submitter's suggestion that the article be redirected to Bra-ket notation: it seems reasonably likely that someone searching for this subject would be looking for Lie bracket instead, or maybe something else altogether. So I think a more appropriate redirect would be to Bracket (disambiguation). —David Eppstein 20:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

  Fair enough. I only said that because that's what was originally there – Qxz 04:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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