Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tensor of a quaternion

Tensor of a quaternion

Contested prod. This is a POV fork of Classical Hamiltonian quaternions by a single purpose account and his sockpuppets. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:50, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - merge into Classical Hamiltonian quaternions (if not already there). Describes Hamilton's concept only. Koeplinger (talk) 01:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirection would be acceptable; I don't think we need the link, but it is not particularly harmful; tensor of a quaternion in the modern sense of tensor is not likely to occur. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 15:33, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can we avoid an edit war? Abstain from voting For the love of god, can we keep this article to avoid an edit war? The point of view fork argument is not a very good one, because this article is also linked from the main article. I propose that Hobojaks and Koeplinger reach some sort of agreement, where each compromises? If we don't reach a consensus here, it will be a long time before we have one again.Caylays wrath (talk) 00:59, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and do not merge. Appears to me to be original research, making an obscure argument about semantics based on original sources that do not directly address the argument it makes (and cannot, because the argument seems to be about concepts that were deveoped after the sources it references), i.e. original synthesis. Also self-contradictory: 'Hamilton did not [...] define a tensor to be "a signless number" [...] Hamilton defined the new word tensor as a [...] signless number'. JulesH (talk) 17:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain for now (Being a 19 century rhetorical device I can neither confirm or deny that I have already voted under a different user name) On condition that the meat puppet above does not have his vote counted I looked at his contribs, and he has never contributed to a mathematics article before. There is an entire section of my book Elements of Quaternions titled the tensor of a quaternion. That section alone is larger than the entire present article classical hamiltonian quaternions. Great material that was hoping that some of you mortals would discover at some point and add to the article. This was the original thinking of one of the original authors of the main article for which this was a long planned sub article. The article currently has some problems, but it is also contains the first efforts of our new quaternionist Septentrionalis as well as the first contributions of an administrator. I propose that we take Septentrionalis efforts as good faith efforts, and that we not destroy them because when an editors first attempt at something gets deleted they tend to get frustrated and not work on the subject any more. If you wanted to recruit a really good expert on this subject then I would suggest Tatarov, who was cruelly bitten the last time he attempted to contribute on the subject of quaternions. Tatarov posits in his pear reviewed published article that quaternions can indeed be used to formulate general relativity. This fact was recently vandalized out of the history article. To enlist his aid however Gentelmen I propose that we agree that he has permission to cite himself as a source. I by the way claim the same privilege.Hamiltons wrath (talk) 20:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- In our modern language, Hamilton considers two different codomains for his tensor function (in 1843, these distinctions were still being worked out); the range is still the continuum from 0 to (positive, if necessary) infinity. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note Deleting this article will break an uneasy truce agreement. I will view it as an act of edit war. I view this third attempt delete this article as deliberate vandalism. Proposing to delete it is trolling. This ongoing vandalism is unacceptable, and is being conducted by people who have not read any of the reference material being discussed. Their intention is to keep Hamilton's point of view out of Wikipedia entirely. They are all meat pupits who have never really contributed. Remember that in order to achieve consensus, I agreed not to move all material in classical hamiltonian quaternions article into the main article. This continued harassment will in my view violate this agreement. Further discussion with you people is pointless.

Lets see a show of hands, how many people participating in this discussion have actually read Elements of Quaternions up to article 214? How many people have actually read Lectures of Quaternions. How many people have read even a basic decent book about quaternions from this time period? You are proposing to move material back into a main article in order to introduce gross factual errors.

Perhaps we should assume good faith on the part of Septentrionalis and let him have this obscure sand box like region and let him work on it, instead of introducing gross factual errors into a main article. Is that his purpose, do delete the the entire article a sentence at a time, and to introduce factual errors into the article? Why is he helping with an article he proposed to delete? If he really wants to contribute material we should give him the chance. I invite him to change his vote, in which case he could win an assumption of good faith, and help build consensus.

Remember when it used to say that tensors are positive numbers and when you add multiply or divide them you still get a positive number but when you subtract them sometimes you get a negative number called a scalar. If you are going to find some pretext to delete key statements from an article like this in a deliberate effort to destroy its logical consistency what is the point of even having an article? So much analysis has already been deleted from the article so as to take it completely out of context, which again I view as deliberate vandalism.

Go head, I don't really care, but after you dump the some of the idiotic content in this article into the other article, please cut the other article down to single a paragraph. Thats the goal here for most of you, keeping Hamilton's point of view off wikipedia. One last thing, everybody go back and read the consensus agreement that everyone agreed to about keeping the main article that this sub article belongs to. Didn't we all agree that Septentrionalis was a black hearted little troll? He enjoys making trouble. He will bring his same slash and burn tactics to the main article no doubt. The main article does not cite any inline sources, except for the ones that I put there. It is being run by people who are cool aid drinking believers in linear algebra, and is based on unreliable sources.

Go back to a pre-vandalized version of this article, and you will notice that I had long ago created a link to what was at the time an empty stub article, and had always intended to develop it further. I have some really good material to put in the article, just don't have time right now. Notice that Versor, Bi Quaternion and a lot of other good sub articles were started as branches off this original article, deleting this name space

Hamilton, Hardy and Tait are reliable sources, as this edit war developes people will have to start reading them, and maybe that is a good thing, because as they do they will start to see that every thing in this article is verifiable. I might be willing to change my vote to again achieve consensus, but this is really the last straw, if this article gets deleted it my be a long time before a consensus is reached again. So delete and declare war if you wish Gentalmen, you have sown the wind, you will reap the whirlwind.

Delete both articles merge into main articleHobojaks (talk) 18:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I disagree; topic entry page (quaternion) should focus on overview and textbook understanding; historical article (Classical Hamiltonian quaternions on its origin. The work that still need to get done on the historical article does not warrant accusatory tone, "wrath", "crackpot" name calling, and other child's play here. WP:SOCK is a guideline, not an accusation. We've all made our point. Koeplinger (talk) 01:06, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- PS: Other than his/her brushy entry a while back, I'm supporting Septentrionalis views and effort. Koeplinger (talk) 01:09, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the sock puppet rules, and not really sure they apply here. First of all there are users commenting in this discussion that feel they are being stalked from article to article, and I don't think that users who feel they need protect their identity because they are being stalked can be excluded from participating in these discussions. Second the sock puppet rules don't apply to users who present contradictory arguments, but rather to users that just say me to, in order to make it look like their side has more support. Third this rule does not apply to users who type arguments in first person using the name of historical figures as a rhetorical devise, especially if the have been using these names for a while.Caylays wrath (talk) 01:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note I just reverted Hamiltons wrath who removed a comment by Caylays wrath and altered the comment by Hobojaks. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:26, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User name Caylay's wrath is no longer participating in this discussion, I checked the rules on this an apparently having a voice of reason in a discussion like this is not allowed.Hamiltons wrath (talk) 10:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After carefully reviewing the rules on sock puppets, which I still feel don't apply to users who feel they are being stalked from article to article by vicious vandalizing trolls, I am retiring user name hobojaks, and caylays wrath from this discussion. Sorry for any confusion, those participating in this discussion who are not meat puppets, drawn into the discussion are not confused. Give me a second to reflect the new user name with which I plan on voting in this discussionHamiltons wrath (talk) 10:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is forbidden to remove other people's comments from discussions, especially deletion discussion. If you disagree with them or feel they should be discounted, simply add a comment to that effect underneath. Only the administrator closing the discussion has the power to discount comments altogether. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]