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Crossed square cupola (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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No sources are mentioned about the crossed square cupola. It is merely an exhibition and the problem of arranging images had already been discussed in WT:WPM. Also, many related articles on those tables, I suppose, does not have any sources. That being said, I think they could possibly be deleted together in here, but sadly this is for one article only. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 01:35, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 August 10. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 01:48, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:31, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and redirect to Cupola (geometry) § Star-cupolae. Part of an infinite family of such shapes with no evidence of independent individual notability. If it had occurred to me to initiate deletion proceedings on this I would have tried WP:BLAR first, but apparently that was already tried unsuccessfully ten years ago. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:54, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 02:45, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matrix field (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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While there are sources like ScienceDirect that use the concept of a matrix field, I do not see how the term itself is notable in the general mathematical community (and even searching for "matrix field" (with quotes) on Google mostly returns results that have nothing to do with the meaning used in this article). So, I agree with the talk page comments. GTrang (talk) 18:52, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. GTrang (talk) 18:52, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: The article was originally created in 2016 by User:Skpandey12, citing a 2015 paper by one S. K. Pandey that was later removed for being published in a predatory journal. --JBL (talk) 20:29, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment If the term were only used in mathematics, I'd suggest redirecting it to matrix ring. But a lot of the uses (maybe the majority) are in physics, where matrix field theory is a subject. XOR'easter (talk) 01:33, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, mostly per WP:TNT. There are potential sources on the matrix representation of fields, such as Wardlaw's "Matrix representation of finite fields" (Math. Mag. 1994), but I think the article would need different content at a different title, so we might as well just delete the one we have regardless. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:16, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per David Eppstein. I also concur that these things actually appear in mathematics (for instance commutative subfields of matrix division algebras are somewhat important in the theory of semisimple algebraic groups) but i don't think the terminology "matrix field" is standard. jraimbau (talk) 10:46, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Matrix theory (physics) where matrix field theory is discussed. There are two kinds of matrix fields--a type of structure in abstract algebra and a class of quantum field theories associated with string theory. The math version has possibilities, but notability is unclear and this article does not do a good job of covering the topic. Matrix fields are a topic in physics, e.g., here is a book on the subject. I suggest a redirect to the physics topic. If the math version is ever rewritten, the redirect could turn into hatnotes or a DAB page. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 18:50, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting as some editors are arguing for Deletion while others are suggesting that a Redirect might be more appropriate.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:42, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Héctor Chang (via WP:PROD on 30 July 2024)