Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/McNugget number

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 of the debate was No consensus. Owen× ☎ 20:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

McNugget number

Trivial example of a mathematical observation based on McDonald's products. No mathematical significance or practical applications. Delete. flowersofnight 15:37, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or merge with Coin problem as a (fairly pointless) example thereof. - Just zis Guy, you know? 16:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge with Coin problem. I agree it's just an example of a linear combination of integers, but I do not see any reason it should not be somewhere in the wikipedia. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 17:41, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with coin problem. Grue 17:55, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per the above as an example, the coin problem article could really use a real-world explanation. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 18:49, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with coin problem. —Blotwell 03:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep as is, Mathworld citation is enough for me. Also these are important if you wish to order exact numbers of mcnuggets Klonimus 07:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- You may notice that the Mathworld citation essentially says "made up by some guy on Usenet in 1990". I'm not sure how something like that got in, but we don't necessarily have to propagate Mathworld's foibles. Googling reveals no other serious citations of the McNugget number that I could find, only inclusion on a few "trivia problems" pages. Only 1 hit as a novelty problem in Google Scholar. flowersofnight 13:07, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, per Lomn. —- Jitse Niesen (talk) 18:11, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Merge with coin problem, which needs an example for clarity; at present that article divides readers into classes: those for whom the article is unintelligiible and those for whom it is trivial. Septentrionalis 19:44, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with coin problem per Lomn. --Metropolitan90 03:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep because of Mathworld citation and multiple independent Google hits e.g. Problem 1 on Third Annual Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition. Gandalf61 09:57, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge at best (delete wouldn't break my heart). If MathWorld jumped off a cliff...? --Trovatore 02:15, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Not changing my vote, but I will say that it would be somewhat more acceptable if removed from all categories except Category:Recreational mathematics, and if the first sentence began with "In recreational mathematics,...". --Trovatore 19:35, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Because the mathematical question depends on the foibles of McDonalds, and the notability depends on the foibles of MathWorld, I would not be in favor of a merge. coin problem could use an example, but a time-varying one is not particularly helpful. (In other words, if it were merged, and I felt like editing coin problem, I'd almost certainly delete it from there.) Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- To clarify, I might include the original McNugget numbers or the problem as an example in coin problems, but would not make any mention of the modern McNugget numbers. Also, the question of whether this article is a trademark violation deserves comment, in addition to the possibly copyvio in regard mathworld noted below. If it is a trademark violation, it would be Speedy Delete. Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:48, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep because the sequence contains all primes except the first 5. Giftlite 03:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- This is a ridiculous argument. There are continuum of such sequences. Grue 06:42, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of the other sequences are nameless, though. Now that we have name it, it's worth keeping. Giftlite 15:18, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Merge because (a) this article is hardly expandable; (b) Coin problem will be improved by it; (c) there is an element of copyvio with regard to mathworld [1], which merging should help address. Rd232 ^talk 07:40, 29 October 2005 (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.