Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fractional electrodynamics
add to this deletion debate Just some references, no actual content. Dori | Talk 17:57, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Some of that research needs to be boiled down, before there's an encylopedia article here. Charles Matthews 18:13, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Not just references, they're all to papers by one person. -- Cyrius|✎ 18:17, Apr 7, 2004
- The research has been "boiled down", for instance in the book "Frontiers in Electromagnetics". The point of posting the references, even though there is yet no content to the page, is to provide access to information. With such access, people can learn. Also, they can more readily fill in the content of the page. These are some of the benefits of the current page. In what ways are these benefits counter-weighted? Kevin Baas 18:39, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Well, it's not an article, that's enough of a counter-weight for anything. People see the link, and it's in blue, they go there expecting to see some content, and all they get is references. If there was at least some content, the references could go in the talk page. Dori | Talk 19:17, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)
- Perhaps once could simply put the references in the talk pages, and leave the article as stub? The link would still be in blue, admittedly. (A (very significant) drawback of this is that people won't see the references.) I don't feel myself competent enough in the subject to write a sufficiently technical introduction. Unless a brief non-formal overview would be sufficient? My contention is that the references are valuable to those interested, who perhaps might from them write said missing article. This is better than nothing, which is what you are suggesting. Kevin Baas 23:41, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep Bensaccount 23:20, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)