The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's
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We have a
Portal:Mathematics, and we have portals on 7 of the 9 "areas of mathematics" (as defined in the navbox). Having a portal for this intermediate level as well seems like serious overkill.
Fram (
talk) 12:22, 26 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete: There is no use to have a portal that does not contains any information that is not easily accessible from the article of the same name. When readers access to this portal, the immediate information that they get is the beginning of the article of the same name, and the beginning of a randomly chosen article whose name is not given. Looking a little nearer to the bottom of the portal, one sees, in the field "Did you know" what is probably the worse sentence ever written by
John von Neumann, who could not imagine the high importance for computer science of
pseudorandom number generators. As mathematically competent editors cannot fix this kind of bugs, this kind of portal must be deleted. Here it is worth to complete the cited von Neumann's sentence as "anyone who considers [replacing human brain by] arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin".
D.Lazard (
talk) 14:48, 26 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per a leading member of WikiProject Math above me
Legacypac (
talk) 16:42, 26 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Strong Delete - Since there already was a
Portal:Mathematics, the creation of this one was pointless, unless it was
pointy. Even more clearly than most, created only because creating portals was fun. Oppose any close with a Redirect or Merge, simply in order to express disapproval of this one.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 00:19, 30 March 2019 (UTC)reply
portal redirects are not used like article redirects. They are mainly for search. No one will search this title. No redirect as someone will just restore the useless portal by reversing the redirect.
Legacypac (
talk) 06:01, 1 April 2019 (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 page's
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