Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1 E2 K

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.

The result was keep. Possibly rename, possibly merge, but retain nonetheless. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:19, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1 E2 K

Re-nominated for deletion after speedy tag was (correctly) removed by another editor. Original reason included below. I believe this should be deleted, but the nom was simply in order to move this deletion to the proper process. Daveydw ee b (^chat/_patch) 11:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Original db-reason, by User:Mbeychok:

At least 90 percent of the visitors to Wikipedia probably have no notion of what 1 E2 K means, so why choose that cryptic title? In any event, the article is simply a list of useless trivia.

Daveydw ee b (^chat/_patch) 11:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing "cryptic titles" is a matter of renaming the article, not deleting it. And the article is part of a series of Orders of magnitude (temperature). Tables of the temperatures of various phase changes (at SAP) and of other things are common in encyclopaedias and reference works for the physical sciences. Here's one from a physics textbook. Here's one from an encyclopaedia. Here's a set of reference tables from a chemistry textbook. Wikipedia should not be less of a reference work than they. Keep. Uncle G 12:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- What does 1 E2 K mean? Recury 14:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Read Orders of magnitude (temperature), as already linked to, and it should be clear. Then read Help:Renaming (moving) a page. Uncle G 15:22, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of information --Roninbk 14:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- It is fortunate, then, that the information in this article is not indiscriminate. See above. Uncle G 15:22, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, having articles on individual orders of magnitude is a very strange idea, but only deleting this one wouldn't help. I might support some kind of mass merge of these kinds of articles into their respective scales or some kind of list. Recury 17:42, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge (along with all of the similar articles) to Orders of magnitude (temperature). Recury 00:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the Data, although you should probably rename this article, or redistribute into sections of similar relations (all the temperatures in one table, for example). No harm in having an example list, just the format is bizzare.Kdcarver 19:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — Part of a limited, interesting and encyclopedic set of articles on orders of magnitude. Wikipedia is not paper. These articles are also being used for article links in places. But if necessary they can always be merged. (E.g. Orders of magnitude (length).) — RJH (talk) 20:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge the data into the Orders of magnitude (temperature) article. I'd like to point out to everyone that there seems to be a whole series of these articles, in various steps from 1 E-12 K all the way to 1 E30 K. The titles are misleading, and many only contain a line or two of information. - Valarauka^(T/C) 23:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - I went ahead and merged all of the articles' info into the main one; the 1 E2 K article in particular had a lot more detail and was already tabulated nicely (unlike the others, which are mostly a couple of lines each), so I just made a new section for it and copied the whole table over; seemed like the easiest way to do it. I've put prod tags on all the others, and this one can be deleted without worry now. - Valarauka^(T/C) 05:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay, as RJH pointed out to me, there are a lot of articles linking in to these "1 Ex K" pages, so I think it makes more sense to Redirect all of them to Orders of magnitude (temperature).
Merge per Valarauka. The information seems more useful if collected together. The current title makes no sense out of context, and probably need not be retained as a redirect. Espresso Addict 00:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and consider merging since there are complete sets of these pages for many units. Rich Farmbrough, 12:51 22 September 2006 (GMT).
Keep and Rename as above 1 E2 K is a strangely cryptic title. I don't really have a clear idea what the new title should be, but all of the similar 1 Ex K pages should probably be renamed in a standard manner. Perhaps "Temperatures from 100 to 1000 Kelvin" or something readable like that. Cool3 19:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but maybe all the 1 EX K pages should be merged together. Lorty 15:53, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - plainly a Keep but the titles need sorting. Bridgeplayer 01:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Orders of magnitude (temperature), Tewfik^Talk 19:13, 27 September 2006 (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.