Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mathie

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 of the debate was REDIRECT to Mathematician. -- Jonel | Speak 21:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mathie

Do we need this kind of article? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• delete dictdef of a neologisim, with no evidence of widespread use. several reasons to delte here. DES ^(talk) 02:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• delete More has been said here than in the article. Arthur Rubin | (talk) 02:31, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Neutral If JamieJones would include some of comments in the article, it seems to fit within Wikipedia's structure, although I would never write such an article. Arthur Rubin | (talk) 20:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Meekohi 02:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Do we really need an article on every slang word that someone invents? Unnotable and unverifiable. -- Fropuff 03:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
  • If the usage is verifiable (and more widespread then just the University of Waterloo) we could just redirect to mathematician and add a (very brief) section on slang terms. I haven't looked through all the links below, so I'm not sure how widespread the term is. -- Fropuff 04:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOT Dbtfz 05:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, a dictdef and an unnecessary one at that. --Lockley 07:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Neutral. Perhaps we should give JamieJones a chance to explain where he encountered this term, and to expand the article to a sensible one? If that is of any relevance, he has also created a userbox Template:User mathie. --Meni Rosenfeld 10:55, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete dictdef Brian Tvedt 11:48, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep*, with the star being that of course I appreciate it if I am wrong as I am still learning the wikipedia ins and outs. I please hope you don't delete the mathie userbox {{user mathie}} as it took me two hours to make it. Yes, that is long, yes i am a newbie. As to the term mathie itself, I fully support the wikipedia process. I did a search in google using "math mathie". Here's webpages I got. I'll try and wikify this if i have time. Please check some of them, and if we agree it's not wiki-appropriate, that's cool, but please reconsider. And spare the userbox if possible because i am proud of it. Thanks. JamieJones ^talk 12:58, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

He-he. :) Having a Wikipedia article so that somebody has what to write in a userbox. :) That's one of the most hillarious reasons I ever heard of . Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:03, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

hahaha. What's even more hilarious is making fun of a new user, so that he feels even more uncomfortable trying to make changes on wikipedia. That's awesome. What would be even more helpful is if you gave me constructive criticism that wasn't sarcasm, but was meant to help. JamieJones ^talk 19:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

• Round our way such people were Mathmos. Whaddya mean there's no article there? GWO
• Delete not needed dicdef. feydey 22:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki The article as it stands is not appropriate for Wikipedia, but still useful. Wikitionary, maybe? CJewell 04:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete This belongs on wiktionary or in the mathematician article. - Gauge 22:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links

• http://www.math.toronto.edu/007/007-news.html

Scroll down, "How to date a mathie"

• http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/mathed/meforum/mail/02/01-16b.html

"In Peter's (slightly modified) words a mathie is "one that loves the subject and loves doing problems." and I would add "she can solve those problems". The litmus test for a mathie: Give him last year's AIME."

• The Mathie Humour Homepaege
• mathie's tech+business bits
• Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal Editiorial of January 4, 2000 Math Wars
• Picture of mathie girls
• nickname
• dated a mathie
• "actually an Australian mathie"
• Mathie pick up lines
• "I think that the term "mathie" is sometimes used in the US, mathmo being the UK (or possibly just Cambridge) equivalent."
• "Mathie UW slang for student of Mathematics"
• "If you need to pick a mathie's brain, don't hesitate to get in touch."
• "But she's a mathie"
  • There, I tried to fix the links as best I could. Does dictdef mean dictionary definition? When deciding whether or not to make this page, I looked at "junkie". And then I cut and pasted it, figuring if junkie was ok, so was mathie. That was my intent. JamieJones ^talk 13:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Yes, it does, User:JamieJones, and Wikitionary would be more appropriate for a "dictionary definition" article than Wikipedia. (see my vote above) CJewell 04:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete until this neologism gains an entry in a published dictionary. FWIW I was a mathematician and a numerist in college, not a mathie. --Perfecto 21:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep common slang term, as demonstrated above by User:JamieJones.  Grue  17:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki per CJewell. howcheng {chat} 17:49, 24 January 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.