Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prime quintuplet

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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 merge back to Prime quadruplet for now. Editors are welcome to instead move the information to prime k-tuple per talk page discussion - the AfD merely determined that the information should be kept. Non admin closure. Giggy Talk | Review 02:04, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prime quintuplet

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Trivia. Is this useful enough for an article?? Georgia guy 21:58, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Merge back to prime quadruplet where it was copied from [1], or to prime k-tuple. Prime quintuplets (sometimes called prime 5-tuplets) are mentioned in sources in connection with other prime tuplets, for example [2] at MathWorld, [3], [4] and [5] at The Prime Pages, the 10 largest known at [6] (normal site currently down due to computer problems), [7] in Mathematics of Computation, [8] and [9] in OEIS. I think definition and records are also listed in Paulo Ribenboim books. Prime quintuplets are notable enough to mention in broader articles, but not enough for their own article. PrimeHunter 23:01, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Merge. I agree with everything Primehunter has said. Why this artificial separation between 4 and the larger integers? Even the first sentence, defining prime quintuplets, is almost impossible to read because prime quadruplets have not been discussed or wikilinked. WP is not a scrap book. Mathsci 07:43, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Weak keep, or else merge back. CRGreathouse t | c) 01:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep This is a notable concept. If you merge back, you'll still need a redirect, so what's the gain in having a redirect rather than a short article?--Bedivere 06:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, per Bedivere. Iotha 17:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to prime k-tuple. (I think merging to prime quadruplet could be very confusing). I'm willing to change my mind if someone shows me two or more math journal papers demonstrably concerning themselves specifically with prime quintuplets (e.g., if the title says "quintuplets" rather than "var-tuplets." PrimeFan 22:17, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Every sentence in the article is pretty trivial or subsumed in the fact that right now it's not known whether there are infintely many prime twins Jakob.scholbach 00:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep or merge to prime k-tuple but don't delete. Though trivial to me, this sort of thing is nevertheless of interest to some mathematicians. Is it less interesting than prime twins? Certainly. But we haven't yet seen a valid argument to delete this. --JayHenry 14:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to prime k-tuple per PrimeHunter & PrimeFan. Anton Mravcek 00:13, 3 August 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.