Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Methods of computing cubic roots

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There is no encyclopedic content here, just worked problems. No references are given. Delete per WP:NOTTEXTBOOK. RDBury (talk) 16:11, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Wikipedia is not a place for how-tos. Kubek15 ^write/sign 17:40, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Per WP:NOT#HOWTO. Joe Chill (talk) 18:48, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Actually all those methods are already on their respective pages. *sigh* WP:NOTHOWTO WP:CFORK--Savonneux (talk) 22:39, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and simplify, as there is already a Methods of computing square roots page with a (short) example. --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:04, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The Methods of computing square roots has a bunch of algorithms that are historically significant without their own pages. This page is just Newton's method and Shifting nth root algorithm for finding ${\sqrt[{3}]{x}}$ ${\sqrt[{3}]{x}}$ both of which apply to nth roots not just cubics. [Ed. I was referring to 'digit by digit' section here, author later copy pasted it from the other article.] --Savonneux (talk) 23:46, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Excellent point, Savonneux. If we keep the article, I'm planning to reduce it to a redirect -> Shifting_nth_root_algorithm#Paper-and-pencil_nth_roots, okay? --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:57, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No encyclopedic content; WP:NOTHOWTO; individual methods already have their own articles. Gandalf61 (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment—Perhaps topic should be covered in general on nth root algorithm.—RJH (talk) 17:41, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to cube root and add anything new there. The article is encyclopedic as hell, to be sure, and I'm root-root-rooting for it, but we do have a policy here against "how to" articles (Quick how to-- Google "cube root(x)" -- it works. You're welcome.) And don't worry, Wikipedians-- this is about cube roots, not about Q*bert, the lovable little guy who hopped up and down those block-thingies (technical term "cubes"). Mandsford 19:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Funny to see that so many people said that wiki has policy against HOWTOs. But how can I imagine a page whose name is method of something COULD NOT contain howtos? And I am curious to know the Newton method is a kind of HOWTO's or not. Probably the height and weight of the name of Isaac Newton makes wikians not to dare to think the Newton method is not a HOWTOs.