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Paravector

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No significant coverage, Apparent COI Rgdboer (talk) 22:43, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Prof. William E. Baylis is the author of cited sources, and possibly the author of this article as it was started from University of Windsor at computer 137.207.80.65. User: Cabrer7 last edited it in May of 2007. The four-dimension concept of "paravector" fails notability outside Baylis texts. Rgdboer (talk) 23:12, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Google Scholar search linked above appears to contradict your last sentence. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 08:05, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:27, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep - This search shows plenty of sources not by Baylis— this topic seems to have very clear notability to me. Margalob (talk) 23:24, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:52, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 17:50, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On mathematical subjects Mathematical Reviews gives sharper results than Google, which turns up links like this for Paravector Using MR with "paravector" requested in the title of an reviewed paper turns up only six articles with 2 by Baylis, 1996 and 2004. The review MR 2343438 is just an advertisement for the reviewer’s book. Two other reviews only quote from the source papers: MR3129054, MR3266495. The sixth article MR2970983 looks more significant, but appears in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras where Baylis is an editor and editorial standards can be viewed online. The body of publications on paravectors is insufficient to support an article on the topic.Rgdboer (talk) 21:46, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Highbeam search showed 6 articles, and a plain google search turned up sources not from Baylis (R da Rocha, R Jozef to name a couple). Also, there isn't any definite proof of a COI. Joel.Miles925 18:00, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Article creator blanked most of the text of the article, which I have now reverted. While it could be interpreted as a request for deletion by author, it looks more like sour grapes, so I will not move for CSD G7 and instead let this AfD continue on to conclusion. Richarddev (talk) 19:44, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]