Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mescher's method

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. - brenneman 01:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mescher's method

Unverifiable - this is merely FOIL named for someone's math teacher, it appears Hipocrite - «Talk» 20:55, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: There is a Mescher in the history of algebra, but since the author of this article has added no references, it is not possible to discern about whom he has written. Here is a source for the Mescher who may have made a notable contribution to the history of algebra (very far towards the bottom): http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?page=109;dir=hutto_dicti_078_en_1795;step=textonly-MsHyde 21:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as it now has a link. Zbl 21:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete WP:NOT a how-to. This is a little more than FOIL, since one must work backwards; but it's not a good method on problems that aren't guaranteed to factor. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 05:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• This discussion has been added as a test case to the proposed guideline Wikipedia:Notability (science). ~ trialsanderrors 18:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete This is not notable enough WP:N --Tunheim 22:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Link appears to be for a homework set? Doesn't seem like it would be a landmark algebraic method! Sdedeo (tips) 06:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. No google hits outside Wiki for "Mescher's method", so this name appears to be a neologism. External link given in article describes method, but does not call it "Mescher's method". Gandalf61 13:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Not a notable topic, probably a vanity article. DavidCBryant 21:46, 11 February 2007 (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.