Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Approximate inequality

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 merge to Approximation#Typography. And/or Inequality (mathematics). Sandstein 19:21, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approximate inequality[edit]

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There is no such thing as an approximate inequality, at least in the sense used here. The reference given do not support this. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:37, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:37, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and discussions at WT:WPM#Approximate inequality, and Talk:Inequality (mathematics)/Archive 1#U+2A85 ⪅ LESS-THAN OR APPROXIMATE — Preceding unsigned comment added by D.Lazard (talk • contribs)
Delete Agree this is not a thing, and the sources given don't support it. Danstronger (talk) 22:22, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This was too hastily split off another page where the content actually made more sense, and the title isn't actually an established term for the topic. XOR'easter (talk) 23:12, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

*Going to agree with Delete, with the caveat that I do think an article discussing these symbols (with a better name) would be a good idea. Caleb Stanford (talk) 23:25, 21 November 2021 (UTC) [reply]

Keep well known concept recognized formally in all of Unicode, HTML, LaTeX; added sources and sorted stub; explicited definition. fgnievinski (talk) 23:58, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Change to Keep per WP:HEY. Caleb Stanford (talk) 03:04, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If this article is delete, I think may be able to redirect to List of mathematical symbols by subject#Arithmetic comparison.--SilverMatsu (talk) 06:29, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, or alternatively merge (back) to Inequality (mathematics). The article was originally split off from Inequality (mathematics), and the first versions of the article didn't really match the article's title. (See the comments by myself and others at Talk:Approximate inequality § Title of this page.) Parts of the article have been merged back since this deletion discussion was started. The parts that were not merged back have been cleaned up significantly by Fgnievinski (thanks!), giving the article a new focus (and making the article's content and its title a better match), and should be kept somewhere. —Tea2min (talk) 14:52, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the summary; let me complement the record reminding the split was recommended in Talk:Inequality (mathematics). fgnievinski (talk) 18:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The new citations do not establish notability for the concept of approximate inequality. They establish that a) a symbol exists, and b) the symbol has ever been used. I still have no idea whether the article is correct that the symbol is typically used to mean approximate inequality. No evidence has been presented that either the concept or the symbol is notable. Danstronger (talk) 23:11, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the discussion above. I don't think this warrants a separate article. ~~Better incorporated back into the Inequality (mathematics) article.~~ PatrickR2 (talk) 06:18, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge I am still recommending to delete the page, and instead merge the contents into the Approximation article. This seems a better place for this information. As already discussed, the information in question is not a precise mathematical concept, and is more used as a convenient informal shorthand when discussing relations between quantities in other sciences for example. That seems to match well with what's already at the Approximation page. PatrickR2 (talk) 00:53, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed the usage is more common in engineering and science than in mathematics. Mathematicians seem to have difficulty even with the more common "much greater than" operator, ≫, reason why it had also been split off originally. Approximation#Typography seems a reasonable destination. fgnievinski (talk) 03:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 08:32, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge somewhere, both Approximation and Inequality (mathematics) are reasonable. Not enough beyond a definition to justify a stand-alone article, but the Unicode points should be discussed somewhere. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 21:33, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, with Approximation and/or Inequality (mathematics). The subject is not notable enough to warrant a stand-alone article. SailingInABathTub (talk) 11:48, 3 December 2021 (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.