Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flower of Life

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The result of the debate was KEEP — Gwalla | Talk 21:31, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flower of Life

Even after a few editors have tried to make sense of it, this is essentially nonsense, virtually content-free. It has been speedily deleted three times, in fact, though with different attempts at content. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:17, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, these are beautiful. [1]. Stubbify if necessary. Kappa 10:12, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Looks okay to me Proto 10:24, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Kappa's major overhaul of the article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:17, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  I agree that Kappa's rewrite ahs improved things immensely. I've now removed maundering nonsense like "called the "flower of life" because it contains a number of other shapes within its deceptively simple pattern", and commented out the unsourced quotation (even if it stays, something should be said about whether there's any truth in it at all, which I doubt). On that basis, I might change my vote (though I want to do some research on the title, at least, first). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:28, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  I did find some more info out and added it, although it's still not brilliant. Suspiciously hippy. Proto 13:28, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  yes, I've found some more, inclduing the source of most of the material there now ([2]). Would you say that this is a copyvio? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:59, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • The image you mean? If it's copied straight from a website it is a copyvio. I think it shouldn't be too hard creating some of these oneself if one has a good drawing program however. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

    More the text, in fact. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:47, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Looks okay to me - -Snorre/Antwelm 13:45, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Decent article. Heh, at first I thought it was going to be about a MacGuffin from Robotech, the "Invid Flower of Life". — Gwalla | Talk 18:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep- DS1953 18:20, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep related to the ancient (and defunct) religion of platonism. ~~~~ 20:01, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Good little article now thanks to Kappa and Proto. Capitalistroadster 00:33, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep needs expansion but looks like a fine piece of information about ancient art.--Poli 18:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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