Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Periodicity

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. MBisanz ^talk 02:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Periodicity

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Pretty much all of the dab entries are partial matches at best (with the possible exception of "Principle of periodicity" - which isn't mentioned in the linked article), and I haven't been able to track any eligible ones down. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:21, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:15, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. An obviously necessary DAB page that provides a perfectly reasonable directory of different meanings of "periodicity" mostly in math and science. All the entries in the list seem on-point to me, so it's not clear what the nominator is objecting to. --Sammy1339 (talk) 21:50, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read WP:Partial title matches. How are, for example, periodic trends and Periodic mapping synonymous with periodicity? What is Fourier series doing there? Clarityfiend (talk) 01:49, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The first two describe two meanings of "periodicity" in chemistry and mathematics, respectively. The third is the only arguable case as the meaning of "periodicity" there is the same as in periodic function. --Sammy1339 (talk) 02:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That is not the purpose of a WP:DPAGE. No doubt an article could be written about periodicity: what's there now isn't it. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:05, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as useful. The disambiguation is used thousands of times a month and someone would definitely be looking for one of those topics. Deletion would be harmful as it would be harder for someone to get to one of those topics. -- Tavix ^(talk) 21:06, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's really not necessary to invoke IAR here - note that this is also the disambiguation page for periodic, and covers the multiple meanings of that term. This is the purpose of a disambiguation page, per WP:DAB. --Sammy1339 (talk) 21:11, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 11:21, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, this is a properly constructed DAB page doing a necessary job and serving users well all the time. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:36, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.