Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eratosthenes stadia

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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. --Ryan Delaney talk 04:58, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eratosthenes stadia

The contents of this article is mostly just a copy of large sections of Eratosthenes, but spiced up a bit with the contributors ideas. Nothing points here. Delete -- Egil 21:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

    • Comment; Either poorly written (wikify) or poorly explained (context). Can't determine validity (possible delete). | Celcius 21:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Eratosthenes, I think. Ken talk|contribs 11:00, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
    • This article is a discussion of the various different combinations of stadia and feet, remen or nibw tthat either make Eratosthenes calculations work or not work. Just because Egil lacks the knowledgebase to see the value in this discussion doesn't mean it should be deleted or redirected. Its too much info to put in the main page and properly focused on just what it says it is focused on. It is not poorly written and its very difficult to wikify until Egil stops marking pages for deletion.Rktect
  • Weak delete. I have to agree with Celcius's comment above: if I understood what this was about, I might vote to keep this -- but as it currently stands it does not fit in an encyclopedia. And if Egil's tagging is preventing you from making it useful, then finish writing it offline until it is. -- llywrch 21:38, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks, thats a good suggestion maybe one of the first good constructive criticisms I have encountered here. Rktect 03:24, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: The article seems to be meant to prove that the ancient Egyptians knew the exact circumference of the Earth, and that they defined their units of measure directly from it. There has been a number of articles on this theme from the same author on VfD before, and this is more of the same. For more info, see User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect#Selected_claims. -- Egil 09:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. This article is not about a specific, distinguished-from-others-by-the-Eratosthenes-name variety of the units of measure called stadia. Rather, it is known that Eratosthenes used stadia of some sort or another, and that he got the number of 250,000 (probably not 252,000) of them in the circumference of the Earth. This article is speculative stuff about possible theories which would fit that 250,000 to 252,000 and make it very close to modern values for the circumference of the Earth, and make it part of some system supposedly hardwired into the human brain or something like that. Gene Nygaard 13:51, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete reposting of research that has already gone through may vfds. -- (drini|☕) 01:42, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as original research. Haven't I seen this stuff go through VfD before? --Carnildo 03:44, 30 August 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.