Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Semiregular space

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Semiregular space

The result was that the nomination was withdrawn. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:33, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article, semiregular space, should be deleted because there is already an equivalent article on it (Locally regular space) (local regularity is equivalent to semiregularity. This is quite trivial and follows from the fact that a subspace of a regular space is regular). I have already explained on Locally regular space, that this is the case by stating that locally regular spaces can also be referred to as semiregular spaces. This article also does not contain any information that the article on local regularity doesn't. Topology Expert (talk) 11:58, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's no reason to delete duplicate articles. They can just be merged and redirected, which seems to be the right option here. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:57, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CBM is right, we can redirect, merge, or both. No reason for deletion. - Mgm|^(talk) 13:15, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/redirect to Locally regular space. I mooted the proposal over there, just in case there are any objections. - Eldereft (cont.) 15:44, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any point in merging because as I mentioned, Locally regular space contains more information that semiregular space. There is only one sentence of information in semiregular space (which is already included in locally regular space) anyway so merging is not necessary.

I have already mentioned (in locally regular space) that there is an alternate (but equivalent definition) of local regularity. In fact, I have never seen the term 'locally regular space' anywhere in literature. I have however seen the term 'semiregular space' on several occassions (see counterexamples in topology). If 'locally regular space' is not an official mathematical term, then there should be no Wikipedia article on it. So I have changed my mind. I would rather delete locally regular space and put all the information there, in this article (under the name 'semiregular space'. Notice in this case, merging or redirecting is not necessary since locally regular space is not a mathematical term). If you object, could you please provide a reference (such as a book) where the term locally regular space has been used (actually I saw an article on Locally Hausdorff space and thought that if there was such a concept, there should be one on locally regular space (despite the fact that I had never seen the term used before). Only recently, I saw the term 'semiregular space' which had essentially the same definition as 'locally regular space')).

Thanks for your input.

Topology Expert (talk) 01:27, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.