Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Standards of measure in the Modern West

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 ^talk 18:42, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Standards of measure in the Modern West

More by same anon user, who creates content faster than we manage to cope. Btw, these pages are not linked. Egil 14:46, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, Valuable, well researched, well cited, interesting, informative. Rktect 7:25, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Burning of books?

As the votes-for-deletion hopefully have shown, Wikipedia is not the right place for the type of material you are producing. I have given you a number of reasons before, and other Wikipedians have now also expressed their opinion.

rktect 8/7/05 The votes for deletion are ultimately reviewed

by a competent administrator who will probably decide

what to do with the articles based on their overall content.

You have made a number of false statements about them

which a competent administrator will probably pick up.

You have claimed they are original research when the articles

cite sources that are in their fifth printing and

in some cases date back to classical sources.

References

ArchaeologyColin Renfrew

A History of Seafaring George F Bass

The Ancient Near East William H McNeil and Jean W Sedlar

The Epic of GillgameshTranslated by Andrew George

The Ancient Near East James B. Pritchard

Bahrain through the Ages,

Shaika Haya Ali Al Khalifa and Michael Rice

Prehistory and Protohistory of the Arabian Peninsula

Dr. Muhammed Abdul Nayeem

Mesopotamia 10 The Sumerian Language Marie-Loise Thomsen

Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East" Michael Roaf

The Archaeology of Ancient China Chang

The Arabic Alphabet Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano

Gardiner Egyptian Grammar § 266 for names of Egyptian units

A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egytian Raymond O Faulkner

Ancient Egyptian Antonio Loprieno

Atlas of Ancient Egypt Baines and Ma'lek

Egypt's Making Michael Rice

Mathematics in the time of the Pharoahs, Gillings, chapter 20.

Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture

Somers Clarke and R. Englebach

InSearch of the Indo Europeans J. P. Mallory

Rivers in the Desert Nelson Glueck

From Alpha to Omega Anne H. Groton

Our Latin Heritage Hines

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius

The Geography Claudias Ptolemy

The History of Herodotus

Old Hittite Sentence Structure Silvia Luraghi

The Rise of the Greeks, Michael Grant

A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest

Alex Patterson

The Historical Roots of Elementary Mathematics

Lucas N. h. Bunt, Phillip S.Jones, Jack D. Bedient

The World of Measurements H Arthur Klein

Norman's Parrallel of the Orders of Architecture R. A. Cordingley

The Medieval Machine Jean Gimpel

The Atlas of the CrusadesHJohnathan Riley Smith

The Plantagenet Chronicles Elizabeth Hallam

Medieval Warfare H.W. Koch

You have claimed they are just lists when in fact they are tables

You have claimed they have no value or are covered elsewhere

which is far from the case because they are comparative tables

which restore the comparitive nature of having lists of unit

values on the same page that you removed by putting them

on separate pages plus adds the utility of putting them

in a table form for comparison

What amazes me is that the articles were not even complete before

you began demanding their deletion. What that tells me is that you

are afraid of discussing their content.

Egil, your massive edit changed the whole nature of the page

You proposed to "cleanup" the page by catagorizing

by culture rather than measure

On your own, over protest, you unilateraly did so

Then you decided to delete all reference to the original version

which preserved the comparison of units between cultures on a single page

We are not taking of burning of books. The Internet is full of places where you can put your content. Very many free of charge. I defintely suggest you move your material to other such locations before your valuable material is deleted.

I seriously doubt it will be deleted as I can see that others

are now aware of your activities

As you may have understood, in Wikipedia, discussions are resolved by consensus. It does not matter if you can read Sumerian, and understand hieroglyphs. Probably the common masses, i.e. Wikipedians, are not capable of understanding nor appreciating material of such extraordinary intelligence and knowledge that you are producing.

Whatever the reason, I suggest you go elsewhere. -- Egil 12:11, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Actually if you read the deletion page it informs that the

votes are used as a guideline but that it is up to the judgement

of the administrator what action if any should be taken

particularly when the page is just being created and is still

being actively worked on every day it would be the normal

policy to keep it and wait to see how well it is ultimatly

polished and perfercted.

• Delete Agree. <drini ☎> 16:11, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete original research. Ken 17:08, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, original research. Nandesuka 16:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as it stands the article consists of nothing but a list with zero useful information. Xaa 00:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - and I'm an Inclusionist! --Jpbrenna 00:30, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

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