The result was delete. Sandstein 18:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
To anyone who knows what a Dedekind domain is (and the article presupposes this knowledge, so offers nothing to anyone else) the statement is completely trivial. Essentially we have a page devoted to the observation: if g is an element of a group G such that two consecutive powers and
are both equal to the identity, then g itself is equal to the identity. Even in this regard the observation is feeble; of somewhat more interest and use is the generalization to the case that
for relatively prime integers m and n. The latter statement might (possibly) merit mention in some article on group theory; there is no way that there is enough content to merit an entire article.
The name is also problematic, but my reasons for recommending deletion are independent of this: I would feel the same way if the article had some more sensible name like "A criterion for an ideal in a Dedekind domain to be principal." Plclark (talk) 08:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]