Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mental Multiplication of Integers ending with 5

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. --PeaceNT (talk) 16:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mental Multiplication of Integers ending with 5[edit]

This is written like a how-to KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 15:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOT#HOWTO and not notable. DCEdwards ¹⁹⁶⁶ 15:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Also unsourced and looks like original research. Hqb (talk) 15:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep — The method in question clearly exists. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 15:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#HOWTO - this is for a textbook, not an encyclopedia. JohnCD (talk) 16:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
merge into 5 (number). If there is reliable source, it may be easily shortened into an encyclopedic entry. Laudak (talk) 16:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- P.S: there is a whole article, Mental calculation, which also may serve as a target of redirect. Laudak (talk) 16:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom -- Darth Mike _(Talk _{• Contribs)} 17:10, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Even if it does exist, there's nothing to back this up. It's just a how-to guide written in inappropriate tone ("how about we..."). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 18:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - an original research how-to guide. Also misses out the obvious methods. 15*35 = sqrt(225*1,225) = sqrt(275,625).... a trivial mental exercise now - Peripitus (Talk) 21:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect to Mental Calculation. Purely original research; I started to laugh when I first saw the title. Erik the Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 23:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not a guide and it's not for original research. Reyk _YO! 23:21, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not an encyclopedia article. JuJube (talk) 23:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Written in a style contrary to every guide Wiki has, it is a guide which breaks WP:NOTGUIDE, it is written in the first person which is against I think every rule in the MOS. doktorb _words^deeds 17:47, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The fact that the article is badly written is not a reason to delete. The fact that it disregards Wikipedia style guides in an extreme way is not a reason to delete. Those would be reasons to rewrite the article, not to delete it. But it is not clear that the topic is worth an article. Quite a lot could be written about how to do arithmetic that is not in the usual textbooks and that would be worth including here—indeed I think some of it already is. Perhaps one thing that could be said in this article's favor is that it tells you how to multiply half-integers and it seems more plausible that that would be worth writing than that multiplying odd multiples of 5 is worth an article. But so far it falls short of convincing me. Michael Hardy (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable, unsourced, poorly written with no content worth merging anywhere. The result is a trivial consequence of (10a+5)×(10b+5) = 100ab + 50(a+b) + 25. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:24, 2 August 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.