Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leinster group

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The result was speedy keep under criterion #1, nomination withdrawn and no arguments for deletion are outstanding. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 03:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Leinster group

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I cannot find anything about this group, except for Boston car dealers. I'm assuming that the author is related to David, invented it, or is using this as a promo page. CSDs declined L3X1 (distant write) 13:05, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

- - NOM WITHDRAWN Notability has been established so page can be curated. Thanks David Eppstein. L3X1 (distant write) 01:47, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:41, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Google scholar found four papers calling these things Leinster groups, none by Leinster himself (unsurprisingly — most mathematicians tend not to call things after themselves, preferring to let others do that). They include one where the subject is in the title, in a famous journal: Baishya, Sekhar Jyoti (2014), "Revisiting the Leinster groups", Comptes Rendus Mathématique, 352 (1): 1–6, doi:10.1016/j.crma.2013.11.009, MR 3150758. Another paper primarily on this exact topic (and mentioning the name in the abstract but not the title) is De Medts, Tom; Maróti, Attila (2013), "Perfect numbers and finite groups", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova, 129: 17–33, doi:10.4171/RSMUP/129-2, MR 3090628. A more detailed search of papers citing Leinster's unpublished preprint [1] found 11 of them. To me that meets the low bar of WP:GNG for topics of academic research: it is something studied in-depth and published in reliable sources by multiple independent groups of academics. By the way, we might also want to add some disambiguation: Google scholar also finds that "Leinster group" can refer to a group of mountains near Mount Leinster, a series of carved crosses in the high mountains of Ireland, a series of hot springs in Ireland, and a series of nickel sulfide deposits in Australia. Nominator should be warned to follow WP:AGF; the assumption that editors who create articles on obscure topics must be doing so out of self-promotion is a violation of this guideline. And who is David? The article creator is certainly not Tom Leinster, as he doesn't seem to have known that Leinster's paper was eventually published. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:55, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Refs seem to establish verifiability and at least minimum notability. See also WP:MANYTHINGS. --Trovatore (talk) 20:08, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per David Eppstein. Also, the idea that the stub to which CSD tags were added was a promotional article strains credulity. --JBL (talk) 20:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CSD criteria is usually never in perfect alighment. Creativity is sometimes needed. L3X1 (distant write) 01:47, 13 April 2017 (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.