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Infinite arithmetic sequence

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The article was originally at the title Infinite arithmetic series; XOR'easter removed the prod and retitled the article. The content still matches the old title. About the existing content, I repeat my prod comment: "Appears to be a made-up phrase to discuss two examples; none of the references include the word "arithmetic," let alone "infinite arithmetic series." It seems doubtful that true sources exist. This non-important special case of zeta regularization should be discussed (if at all) in the more general article as an example." About the new title, it is a thing that is not made up and indeed sources exist for it. However, there should not be an article with this title, instead it should be a redirect to arithmetic progression and any relevant content can be covered there in the correct context. JBL (talk) 19:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. JBL (talk) 19:28, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Redirecting to arithmetic progression (and merging whatever is not redundant) would be fine by me. There may be more worth commenting on under the search term "infinite arithmetic progression" (see [1]), but even so, having a whole article instead of a section in another feels like the wrong way to go. XOR'easter (talk) 20:15, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to arithmetic progression. The content of the article is about series (sums) of these infinite progressions, which are mostly not independently notable and for which we already have separate articles on the notable ones 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + ⋯ and 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯. But the title of the article is instead about sequences (1,2,3,... not 1+2+3...), a topic already covered at arithmetic progression. The article content is deletable, but the title makes sense for an existing article, so it should be redirected. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:11, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to arithmetic progression. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:10, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]