Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Algebra of physical space

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 keep. Johnleemk | Talk 11:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Algebra of physical space[edit]

This article does not meet the original reason for its creation (easy to read). It needs a more consistent background to be readable and most of the links do not fit in the context (only confusing the reader). However, this material may appear in the future as a wikibook - CSD from User:Cabrer7, not CSD listing here instead-- pgk^(talk) 22:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Real, verifiable topic in mathematical physics. Admittedly, the article is horribly over-technical, has too many unexplained equations, and goes into too much detail for a general-purpose encyclopedia, but none of these are valid reasons for deletion. ManoaChild 23:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as above; although I cannot resist thinking that most of this should be merged into the various topics it discusses, leaving this as a commented list of possible algebraic models of physical space. Septentrionalis 06:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Content is verifiable and notable, albeit badly written. This article attempts to write many of the basic concepts in physics in terms of geometric algebra. This is well covered in the listed references. The content should probably be merged with geometric algebra or the page renamed (something with geometric algebra in the title would be appropriate). -- Fropuff 07:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Not all of it; or do you want electromagnetism under geometric algebra? Septentrionalis 05:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, it's too long to stick it all in geometric algebra. Actually, I think the transwiki idea is maybe the best. This seems to be more appropriate for a wikibook on "geometric algebra in physics", rather than an encyclopedia article. -- Fropuff 05:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - My feeling is that the bulk of the article really is not appropriate for an encyclopedia article, at least in its current state. I think that the article should be transwikified, but that the original article should not be deleted but should be cut down to a simple description and a brief description of the applications of this approach. ManoaChild 21:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwikified. I am the main author of this article and I admit that I did not choose a good name. I suggest to transwikify it as a wikibook immediately. The title would be different though, perhaps "Geometric Algebra Applied to Physics. An Approach from the Algebra of Physical Space". The range is too wide to fit in a single article because the applications range from Classical Mechanics to Quantum Mechanics. In this way I could write the contents of the links in the context of the algebra with the same notation. --User:Cabrer7, January 19 2006

So where's the transwikified version? and will you be trimming down this article? linas 04:20, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The general structure of the wiki book is at

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Physics_in_the_Language_of_Geometric_Algebra._An_Approach_with_the_Algebra_of_Physical_Space This wikipedia article will be shortened soon --User:Cabrer7, January 23 2006

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.