Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Locally regular 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 was delete. ✗plicit 12:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Locally regular space

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This article discusses a concept that by the page creator's own admission was invented for this article itself (see talk:Locally regular space.). This clearly fails WP:GNG. It was suggested to merge, but since the article is irredeemably unsourced (for the same reason), everything in the article as it stands is WP:OR. Therefore I can't see any content to merge. I'd be happy with blanking and redirecting. Felix QW (talk) 08:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Felix QW (talk) 08:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If it is invented then it's eligible for CSD A11. Neo-corelight (Talk) 08:45, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The reason I didn't tag for CSD A11 is that the admission of having invented it is on the Talk page, and not in the article itself. Felix QW (talk) 08:52, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I PROD'ded it with the reason indicated, but the PROD was removed, so I went to AfD. Felix QW (talk) 08:52, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:OR PianoDan (talk) 18:26, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. "Regular" is heavily overused as a mathematical term. I searched MathSciNet, finding 105 papers with the phrase "locally regular". Two of them actually appear to involve point-set topology, MR 0025149 and MR0025150, but I think the concept there is different. So although it is plausible that someone else might have studied the same concept under the same name, I didn't find any evidence that it actually happened. Searching for locally T3 was similarly fruitless. So this appears to be, not only OR, but unrescuable OR. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:42, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:OR. Note also that the page creator is not active on WP anymore, but already in the Talk page discussion from Nov 2008 he agreed that "unless 'Locally regular space' is a formal mathematical term, deletion should be considered". PatrickR2 (talk) 07:45, 18 January 2022 (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.