Talk:Self-dual polyhedron

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[edit] Table of polyhedra

What is the table of polyhedra doing here? Most of them are not self-dual. If nobody replies by next time I visit (whenever that may be), I'll delete it. Hope that's OK. Steelpillow 19:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

The table was meant to be a sort of "control panel" to link to other types of polyhedra. I didn't make it and I accept it is too intrusive (large) and unclear meaning. My judgement is that a cross-reference table like that belongs at the bottom of a page, like a "see also" section of links. Tom Ruen 08:33, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I always forget how to access the templates, but figured it out again: Template:Polyhedron types. I'll start a talk page there. Tom Ruen 13:52, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, it is so unrelated to the present topic that I think it should not be on this page at all. Also, it is a bit wrong-headed. There is no absolute class of "dual polyhedra" - duality is a relationship between pairs, not a property of a single figure. So there is no reason to the heading "dual polyhedra" as a subheading for a set of rows - if present at all it should be a separate column, to show the relationships between classes (for example Archimedeans <-> Catalans, or Platonics <-> Platonics). I am really not sure what this table is trying to achieve - but I don't think it has quite managed to. Steelpillow 11:45, 26 December 2006 (UTC)