Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Examples of differential equations

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The result was redirect to Differential equation#Examples. The consensus based on the discussion is that the page fails WP:NOTTEXTBOOK and that any encyclopedic content is already on the main Differential equations page. (non-admin closure) Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 13:56, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Examples of differential equations[edit]

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Honestly, I'm astonished this wasn't nominated for deletion before. Basically, a textbook case of WP:NOTTEXTBOOK.

What's next, examples of polynomial equations? Examples of circles? Examples of sine waves? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:13, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:13, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Differential Equations#Examples The material reads like a how-to guide, and all its encyclopedic content is duplicated by the articles we have on the individual types of differential equation and the methods for solving them. I do think that the title would make a decent, straightforward redirect to an existing section of the main article on differential equations.

As a side-note, the page was "moved" here from the subpage Differential equations/Examples on 7 September 2002 (!), even though it doesn't show up in the move logs.

Comment. I have no clear idea ot what to do with this article. As it is, it is certainly not encyclopedic. However, with little work, it could be a basis for an article called List of analytic methods for differential equations. This could be useful for users not interested in the theory, but who have equations to solve. So, I hesitate between the above suggested redirect and a move. D.Lazard (talk) 11:13, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Differential Equations#Examples per above. This topic is already covered in that section and doesn't warrant a stand alone article. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:43, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. Agree with the nottextbook criticism. In response to D.Lazard (talk · contribs), I think it would take immense work to make such a change, since the content is (at present) almost completely restricted to what's usually a single chapter in a first undergraduate textbook on the topic. Gumshoe2 (talk) 16:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or rename: There are many types of differential equations and I can see an article discussing them, separate from the main differential equations article itself. Maybe the article title "examples of ..." is problematic. Just redirecting feels a bit lazy solution. -- Taku (talk) 09:21, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Differential_equation#Examples. Not that that section is great — the examples seem chosen in a partly arbitrary way, with only brief indications of significance for only some of them — but it makes more sense to improve that page than to try making something out of this one. XOR'easter (talk) 23:57, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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