Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Numerals invented by Hindus

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 03:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Numerals invented by Hindus

• Delete: Article exists at Hindu-Arabic numerals. Title POV fork. deeptrivia (talk) 05:34, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: POV+ fork. The title is incorrect, & POV. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• delete per deeptrivia. dab (ᛏ) 15:44, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• delete per nom. DES ^(talk) 17:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. rodii 20:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per deeptrivia. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-07 01:08Z
• Delete: per nominator. --Bhadani 06:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 16:47, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. NeoJustin 18:40, January 7, 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Comment: this appears to be part of an edit war with some people attempting to push the terminology "hindu numerals". --C S (Talk) 02:38, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

LOL, there's hasn't been any such edit war! deeptrivia (talk) 03:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries going back through early December show edit warring between several other editors. The point of contention seems to be between those who find "Arabic numerals" biased for whatever reason and those who argue from common usageI took the recent push for "Hindu numerals" to be as part of this. If not, then sorry. --C S (Talk) 03:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

There was a revert war mainly between two obscure editors who have since then disappeared. Their edit histories show that they never edited anything on wikipedia except that article. However, their revert war had nothing to do with naming of the article. I don't fully understand what exactly they were fighting for. Their discussion got hopelessly mixed with an independent discussion, in which there was a consensus built to rename the article to "Hindu-Arabic numerals", based on reasons that are summarized here. After this name change, there was another vote to change the name back to "Arabic numerals." The name was changed back to AN despite a verdict for HAN, but the admin reverted that change later. The current name change was done by another editor, and currently the matter is under discussion. At no point, however, did anyone propose "Hindu numerals" as the title. All I can remember is a comment by the editor who created this fork, asking why is there the word "Arabic" at all in the title. This editor didn't contribute to the discussion at Talk:Arabic numerals apart from his vote and this comment. deeptrivia (talk) 07:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nominator ImpuMozhi 06:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator Arthur Rubin | (talk) 23:12, 11 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.