Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Bredon cohomology
- 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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was: merge to Equivariant cohomology. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:36, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Up for G13 again. Redirect reversed 6 months ago. No progress on draft since August 2014. Legacypac (talk) 08:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- Merge to equivariant cohomology (and split off the section when it becomes large). —- Taku (talk) 08:31, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- Move to mainspace as this is a notable topic – see the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, for example. A trout for the nominator as creating an MfD page adds to the time-wasting clutter, rather than reducing it. Andrew D. (talk) 09:46, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- Trout not accepted User:Andrew Davidson MfD is the appropriate place to deal with this user's pages. Legacypac (talk) 17:19, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
- Keep - draft on a clearly notable non-duplicated topic (per Andrew D.) which is also clearly not ready for mainspace as it's only one incomplete sentence fragment. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- Redirect as was done before. It saves the history but keeps the point that we don't allow the draft space to be used as a personal collection of math notes. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:38, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- How does blanking the article with a redirect contribute to constructing the draft, though? The redirect just has to be overwritten in order to continue working on it. Seems pointlessly obstructive to me. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:10, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- A redirect links the page to the related topic via "what links here" which helps interested users find it for possible expansion or merger. Secondly, redirects are not subject to G13 so they don't come up on maintenance lists every six months. Third the redirect preserves whatever value there is in the work without presenting an incomplete or unreferenced page to readers that may be mirrored to other sites. Legacypac (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- I think it's reasonable to say the draft isn't going to be constructed at this point. Taku himself suggested a merge. I always prefer a merge from a redirect at XfDs, because it eliminates something that is policy-violating (i.e. the draft space is not a webhost for notes on math), while allowing the merger of any content that needs to be merged. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- Well okay, I see what you're saying. Taku seems willing to help complete this to a mainspace-acceptable point, or if not we could probably kludge our way through merging it ourselves. There's not a lot of calculus in accounting but I'm less unfamiliar than most. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- I think it's reasonable to say the draft isn't going to be constructed at this point. Taku himself suggested a merge. I always prefer a merge from a redirect at XfDs, because it eliminates something that is policy-violating (i.e. the draft space is not a webhost for notes on math), while allowing the merger of any content that needs to be merged. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- A redirect links the page to the related topic via "what links here" which helps interested users find it for possible expansion or merger. Secondly, redirects are not subject to G13 so they don't come up on maintenance lists every six months. Third the redirect preserves whatever value there is in the work without presenting an incomplete or unreferenced page to readers that may be mirrored to other sites. Legacypac (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- How does blanking the article with a redirect contribute to constructing the draft, though? The redirect just has to be overwritten in order to continue working on it. Seems pointlessly obstructive to me. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:10, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- 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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.