Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poyting (crater)

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The result was delete as erroneous dab page now superseded by Poynting. Unlikely search term, so no redirect. Sandstein (talk) 07:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Poyting (crater)

This is a disambiguation page which is disambiguating between nothing and nothing. Disambiguation pages are meant to allow readers to find an article from a group of articles we have, and we have no articles on any craters called Poyting. I can't find any evidence, via a google search, that there even is any crater anywhere named Poyting. Xyzzyplugh (talk) 08:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete We don't have disambiguation pages when there's nothing to disambiguate. --Lu Ta 08:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. There appear to be lunar and Martian craters named Poynting (after John Henry Poynting) rather than Poyting. The lunar crater has its own article, but the Martian one doesn't. I'm not too familiar with the guidelines on dab pages; should there be one when there are two entries and one is a redlink? Alternatively, does the Martian crater deserve its own article? AnturiaethwrTalk 10:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(Reply to first question) No. Disambiguation pages are for navigating between existing articles. --Lu Ta 10:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- It seems we have a number of pages relating to John Henry Poynting. Poynting vector, Poynting-Robertson effect, Poynting effect, Poynting's theorem, Poynting (lunar crater), 11063 Poynting. It would be reasonable to have a disambiguation page on this. It would obviously not be named Poyting (crater), or anything-crater. --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 10:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is now a disambiguation page for this purpose: Poynting. --Lu Ta 10:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A quick search of the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature shows Anturiaethwr is correct. The title of this page should be Poynting (crater), if it is kept. I'm not sure whether the Martian crater should have an article, I need to trawl through the journals again. MER-C 10:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Poynting (lunar crater), which I just did :v) . If someone creates the Mars crater article, it can be redirected to Poynting instead, which also includes an asteroid. Potatoswatter (talk) 12:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete per WP:CSD#R3 (a recently created redirect from an implausible typos or misnomer) now that the dab page issue has been settled properly elsewhere and the article under discussion has been turned into a redirect. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:53, 29 April 2008 (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.