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The result was transwiki to Wikibooks. I've placed a request on Wikibooks for a transwiki to be carried out. Neıl ☎ 11:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction to metrics, norms and inner products[edit]

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Proposed for deletion by Leolaursen with reason: "The tutorial style is against WP:NOT#MANUAL. If these subjects really merits an introduction, the article should be split-apart." Indeed, the first sentence of the article is "The following article is an introductory tutorial to inner products, norms and metrics." Such articles are probably welcome at Wikibooks but not in an encyclopaedia. There is no information in the article beyond the three articles inner product space, norm (mathematics) and metric (mathematics). So I propose to transwiki and delete the article. Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I agree. Move to Wikibooks where this is just the sort of material that is needed. -- The Anome (talk) 14:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to Wikibooks: although we on Wikipedia do, occasionally, have "introductory" articles on complicated topics, in this case I think a move to an appropriate project such as Wikibooks is the best solution. S. Proudleduck (talk) 22:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to Wikibooks: this article has just begun, so it is hard to definitely say it has a howto style, but it seemed to me that it was intended to assist the reader attempting the first homework set on these problems. I believe such problems were recently discussed on LiveJournal's math help community. If the article was truly meant as a conceptual introduction to these topics, then I think it would be suitable. The article Group (mathematics) has sections with ((main|Topic)) tags which basically only serve to introduce the topics in a nice overview. Such an article for Rudin's Principles of M.A. style topology would be useful, but the current seems much more like an attempt at a textbook companion. JackSchmidt (talk) 04:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to Wikibooks. Paul August ☎ 02:53, 6 February 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.