Talk:Glove problem

This article was nominated for deletion on 18 February 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Safe sex makespan for the deletion discussion. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:10, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Delete this Article

This article has been nominated for deletion in the past with a vote passing to keep it. This was years ago. Still there are no citations, the article is incoherent and hardly usable, and has little to do with either math or safe sex. 66.224.232.34 (talk) 17:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Glove problem

The glove problem is different as stated on mathworld (which links to it from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CondomProblem.html as well) but it may be a bad staement, as it appears ok for corss contamination between doctors or cross contamination between patients to occur. Gloves of course are also handed, which gives rise to a whole other class of problems (pertaining to the handedness or ambdexterity of the examiners). The answer on mathworld also disagrees with the article. Rich Farmbrough 21:18, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You mention reversible condoms in the article. Are there any at all? As far as I know they all have a very strict "inside" and "outside" (as also mentioned by condom). That also makes sense, because the outside is perfumed or flavored, and the inside is usually coated with some type of spermicide (at least, it is very unlikely to be flavored). On the other hand, latex gloves are reversible, and a left-handed glove may be turned inside-out to make it right-handed. That means that the condom problem will have a higher solution than the glove problem, because the number of sides available to a condom is less than that with a glove. -- Brhaspati (talk, contribs) 11:20, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

For that matter, how practical is it for one person to wear more than a couple condoms? -- Anonymous

This problem is quite far fetched... It looks like it were invented to try to get some attention of sex crazed engineering students or something... No really it's quite stupid. And surely it isn't safe sex.

This has got to be some kind of joke, surely! LOL -stray

Three years on and time for another delete discussion

This article went through a delete discussion. The debate seems fairly even and it was kept with the idea that it was to be rewritten as the glove problem.

Reading the comments my impression is that it would have been deleted except that for that rewrite possibility.

That was February 2006. Three years on and no Glove problem and remarkably not even a single word added to the article that there might be the glove problem (of which this article is a rather particular and peculiar example). That suggests a need for another deletion discussion: if it was worth keeping because it might be turned into the glove problem surely someone would have feel bothered another to just add a few words in it that it was a form of the glove problem.

But no one seemed to feel that the existence of this article mattered even that much--surely that is evidence that it lacks sufficient notably to be kept--otherwise someone would have made the effort--a line of words hardly takes any effort.--LittleHow (talk) 13:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Three more years

No modification to the article have been made. Google scholar does not return any result for "safe sex makespan". One may grant that the problem is a legit OR problem, but if it has not a single hit on google scholar, possibly does not belong here. Though a simple google search of 'makespan' brings one here. The concept of 'makespan' is better explained in Job Shop Scheduling. I have nominated the article for deletion again. --Lawikila (talk) 04:26, 3 May 2012 (UTC)