Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mason Triangle

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 00:57, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mason Triangle

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Apparently non-notable mathematical concept. Google scholar turns up squadoosh: [1] as does a regular Google search: [2]. The "journal" used as a reference, "Math Kos1" also turns up nothing at all: [3] making me think it does not actually exist. This is an unremarkable geometric shape, and feels like something someone made up at school one day. Jayron32 03:25, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - No evidence of notability. (I'm pretty sure that's because it's mathematically fairly uninteresting). Thparkth (talk) 03:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry Jayron32. I will try to scan Math Kos1 ASAP. It is our school math section newspaper kind of. A visiting scholar wrote about this curve and it looks pretty remarkable to me. No offense. Anyway, I will try to scan that newspaper asap, in the meantime I send you my best wishes and warmest regards. I am sorry if I caused any trouble, I never intended to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skywalkerdhc (talk • contribs) 03:36, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No apologies necessary. You aren't expected to know every Wikipedia policy the moment you show up. You may want to read over Wikipedia:Your first article to get some understanding of how to write a good first article, and more importantly, how to choose a topic to write about. Not every conceivable idea will merit a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Verifiability are also good things to read. --Jayron32 03:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Mason triangle is possibly notable, but it's a triangle associated with Freemasonry and it's a actual triangle, not a curve. The graph appears to be a variety of hypotrochoid, but the equations given are wrong for that and when I graphed them I got a different curve. I assume the equations given have a typo somewhere but can tell what the correct version should be. In any case the article seems to be OR.--RDBury (talk) 05:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I figured out what the equations probably should be and fixed the article, just for fun since the article still seems to be OR. It is a hypotrochoid but there is no indication in the article as to why this particular assignment of the parameters is notable.--RDBury (talk) 05:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - not notable and not especially interesting, or at least no more interesting than an unknown number of other similar curves (it's a Spirograph curve of which there are probably thousands) --JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 09:37, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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