Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derivation of the partition function
article is barely coherent and full of misinformation. some examples:
it gives at least two fundamentally erroneous statements re ergodicity. it confused ergodicity with the a priori equal probability assumption in the first section. and the statement "... (otherwise, we would have ergodicity with respect to particle number). ..." is simply nonsensical. the derivation is awkward and unilluminating. the last expression in the first section is precisely the canonical partition partition. yet, immediately below, the article claims " The previous derivation is too restricted..." then apparently proceeds to "derive" canonical ensemble. the last section proposes to derive the grand canonical ensemble, so why not give the grand partition function explicitly? In summary, the article is possibly correct information that is at least awkwardly arranged or misarranged (one can probably find pieces of it here and there in some texts), with incorrect statements and no clear understanding demonstrated throughout. Mct mht 21:21, 21 May 2006 (UTC)