Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roman letters used in mathematics

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Roman letters used in mathematics

The answer to this article is all! The article limited itself to two, unfortunately. Oleg Alexandrov 01:27, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Where did you see two? owever one has to admit that the article has certain merit: there do exist certain conventions, like xyz are for unknowns, abc are for knowns, ijklmn are for integer counters, etc. $\mathbb {R}$ is guess what? It would be a good idea to collect all Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae, like, $\sum$, $\nabla$, $\aleph$, $\iff$, etc., into one place mikka (t) 02:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • You mean like Table of mathematical symbols? AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 03:07, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
    • No, I did not mean it. math symbols are special symbols like $\iff$ or $\cup$, and they are only part of math conventions. Letters of various alphabets have some predefined meanings in math. mikka (t) 14:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
      • Table of mathematical symbols already contains letters of various alphabets, although it is certainly not complete. I can now see how this article and its Greek counterpart could be useful, although this whole set of articles could use some instensive re-organization – there are gaps in some places and duplications in others. I'd be willing to help. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 15:09, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Nearly no content, useless as a redirect. Keep or Merge pending figuring out how the heck to reorg all of this info. :-) AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 15:09, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not a useful title for searching, and the important stuff should already be in Table of mathematical symbols. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 04:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Wrong. mikka (t) 14:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree with android. This/these topics should be in an "instensive re-organization"

• Keep or Merge with Greek letters used in mathematics. At least let it evolve for a while. --R.Koot 19:18, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep article seems to be evolving in positive directions.linas 23:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The article is already good, and I can see it being very useful when it's more complete. --cesarb 00:44, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per R.Koot's comment. ··gracefool |☺ 01:08, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but move and change article name to Uses of Roman letters in Mathematics. Pufferfish101 04:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Update

This article is ment to be updated by others. I found the A part in the Latin Alphabet article. I am not vary good at creating math articles, as can be seen in Greek letters used in mathematics. I encourage you to put more content in this article.

The crator of this article, 68.169.113.246 Talk to me, 68.169.113.246 My contributions 10:26, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Since you seem to be planning to contribute much to wikipedia, please create yourself a user name. It takes only a few minues, but has a number of benefits. mikka (t) 15:07, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Creating a username is very good advice. It will make it a lot easier to collaborate with you on the merger/reorg, especially if you have a dynamic IP. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 15:12, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

As stated in My personal page, my mom has full control over weather or not I can sign up for something. I can contribute to articles without her permission, though. I had a large fight with someone in 2003 in a chat room, that is why mom has full control on where I sign up. I will talk to her about getting signed up here this evening.

Ask your mom to read this page. Mom, give your kid a login on wikipedia. I have two kids of my own and I'm thrilled that we've got someone young here who is interested in contributing in a positive way to encyclopedia pages on mathematics! Anyway, a wikipedia login doesn't actually obligate you to do anything other than what your're already obligated to do. linas 23:07, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Also, if she's wary of flamewars, fighting is (theoretically) less, er, flamey on Wikipedia, given the policies on civility and no personal attacks. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 23:13, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. This fellow Teg Gunter is an intersting fellow; he's not a kid and the "mom" reference threw me. Moved to User_talk:68.169.113.246 linas 23:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

She let me have a username, User:Admiral Roo smile

Update 2

mikka, you have a good idea, Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae. See that pages discussion page.

• Keep--Scimitar 22:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

More content

Myself and Mikka has added more content. Perhaps now this article should not be voted for deleation. Though, with Mikka's idea of the Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae article, perhaps both the Roman letters used in mathematics and the Greek letters used in mathematics could be merged into Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae.

No. It is better to keep them as separate articles. I was not aware about the article on Greek letters, and I see now that it may grow quite large, hence merging would be undesirable. mikka (t) 22:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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