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 was keep. !Voters gave appropriate rationale for their arguments. As noted, sourcing definitely needs to be improved, and maybe a rename is in order, but these can take place outside of WP:AFD. (non-admin closure) Rollidan (talk) 16:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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A list of examples of vector spaces is not notable. Also, this seems to be a case of WP:NOTTEXTBOOK. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:27, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:27, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:27, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and WP:NOTTEXTBOOK. Plus we already have this content in brief under Vector space#Examples. Ajf773 (talk) 20:32, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• keep. Good resource for research. Vector space#Examples should give a short list of particularly informative examples but there is room in wikipedia for a more comprehensive (and advanced) list Robinh (talk) 21:17, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• I don't think the deletion rationales so far really add up. This article is simply the expanded version (per WP:Summary style) of Vector space#Examples. The content in the separate article is just as encyclopedically relevant as the content in that section. There's nothing there there that's didactic, so I can't see how it could be a case of WP:NOTTEXTBOOK; if it were, then that consideration would equally well apply to the section in the main article. Is there anything I'm missing? – Uanfala (talk) 21:25, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The concept of a vector space is obviously notable, and so a list of examples is, in principle, proper encyclopedia material. WP:NOTTEXTBOOK is a somewhat squishy rule in practice, as it can be hard to say if a given piece of technical content is too textbook-y. I think that for any reasonable drawing of that line, though, this falls on the good side. It's written much more like a reference to look up things within than a narrative to lead a student into a subject. An expansion of a section in another article is not redundant with that article. XOR'easter (talk) 22:47, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Might be worth renaming List of vector spaces. "Examples" stinks of unnotability. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:01, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Category:Vector spaces exist. I agree, rename it to List of vector spaces. Dream Focus 15:42, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I agree with XOR'easter: a good encyclopedic article like Vector space should have a list of key examples; spinning that list out into a separate article seems very defensible. There is a potential for textbookiness, but I share the feeling that this particular article, as written, avoids it. Obviously the fact that there are no references whatsoever is not good, but that's a fixable problem (at a glance I think all the material is referenceable in principle). --JBL (talk) 12:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I brought one reference over from Vector space#Examples, so the cardinality of the set of references is nonzero. XOR'easter (talk) 20:11, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep As per XOR'easter. MrsSnoozyTurtle 09:35, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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