Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glossary of mathematics

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The result was keep. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:31, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Glossary of mathematics[edit]

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Most definitions given in this glossary are vague and cannot be used without looking at the linked article. So, it is faster for a reader to search the terms in the window search, for getting directly the correct definition, than coming to this glossary, searching the term in it, and use the provided link for eventually getting the correct definition.

Moreover, as the glossary is a stub, the probability is very low that readers find here the term that they are searching for.

So, this article is really not useful. D.Lazard (talk) 18:22, 18 June 2019 (UTC) D.Lazard (talk) 18:22, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:36, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There are already glossaries of subfields (Category:Glossaries of mathematics), so either Glossaries of mathematics or List of glossaries of mathematics might be a useful navigation tool, but one potentially long one for all of mathematics doesn't seem to be useful. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:00, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The subglossaries can be linked from here, so size doesn't matter. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:02, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The topic is clearly notable as there are plenty of published glossaries of mathematics and we seem to have a surfeit of them on Wikipedia too. Besides this page, we have:

List of mathematical jargon, for which there is already a merge proposal
Category:Glossaries of mathematics, with numerous sub-glossaries
list of mathematical constants
list of mathematical symbols
Category:Mathematical terminology

So, some merger and rationalisation might be appropriate but it doesn't make sense to turn this page into a redlink, when its title is so short and simple. The trouble with the detailed sub-field glossaries is that you need to understand those fields before choosing the right one. Perhaps this page should be made into a glossary of glossaries, like a lists of lists, providing some narrative to assist navigation at a high level. Deletion would not be helpful or necessary for this, per our policies WP:ATD, WP:PRESERVE, &c. Andrew D. (talk) 21:50, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: It seems there is a general question of the usefulness of glossaries at all. I would point out that the readers need not go through the glossaries instead of going directly to the specific articles. The nominator is thus wondering who would then read an article like this. But if that argument is valid, then a vast number of articles in Wikipedia need to be deleted. Are glossaries useful? I would argue the right question is: can a glossary such as this one can be written? For me, why not. —- Taku (talk)
Keep - The topic is clearly notable but the article needs improvement. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:24, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Did anyone actually have a look at the individual entries of Category:Glossaries of mathematics? These. Are. Massive. It is a practical impossibility and entirely undesirable to have a catch-all glossary that combines or duplicates all these separate facets. Maybe turn it into a List of glossary of mathematics, but that's a one-pager and arguably surplus to requirements because the category already exists. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:01, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.