Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greatest mathematicians

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:43, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Greatest mathematicians

A list ranking matematicians after "Greatness" has to be POV. We already have List of mathematicians and a bunch of mathematicians categories. Delete. Shanes 22:52, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. The creator of this article seems to be playing around [1]. Oleg Alexandrov 23:06, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, same as Worst U.S. President et al. I might accept a properly cited List of mathematicians believed to be the greatest ever. Meelar (talk) 23:08, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - More or less POV, and I don't see any real potential. Not very well written anyway. You could argue for some kind of consensus amongst mathematicians but the already existing list mentioned above seems good enough. Kyle543 23:29, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - POVanity. José San Martin 23:58, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, POV. DO NOT redirect article space to categories. Slapping speedy delete headers on VfD pages is inappropriate. Please don't do that. RickK 00:09, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep the article with its title. I have erased the content AND redirected it to Category:Mathematicians, which is more dynamic than List of mathematicians. Done deal. Why? Because "Wikipedians" who find a mathematician "great" will put the mathematician's article on the mathematicians category anyway for people to read. That way we have an "automatic" article about the "greatest mathematicians", and the purpose of the article is served. Check it out by clicking on it: Greatest mathematicians. It only costs Wikipedia a few bytes, which is less than this whole discussion. AND delete this discussion, because it uses too much space, and because nobody wants to have the original content of the article anyway besides its creator. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 00:12, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• • Delete. Clutter that redirects is still clutter. Brendan62442 19:25, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, almost entirely subjective. -℘yrop (talk) 01:56, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Endless arguments, unresolvable even in principle, about whether David bernoulli was a second-class or merely a third-class mathematician. Useless and not encyclopedic. -- Dominus 02:01, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Doesn't list me there so it is wrong, ergo delete. --Zero 07:35, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete , inherent POV. Radiant_* 09:13, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete — Selection criteria is too inexact. — RJH 16:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete entirely POV --nixie 04:28, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Zero. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:36, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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