This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was move and replace with redirect.. – Rich Farmbrough 14:28, 31 July 2005 (UTC) reply
I think this should be either deleted or redirected to
trillion.
Oleg Alexandrov 00:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
reply
Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers states that only "some powers of ten" beyond 9000 warrant individual articles. The argument over whether an article about the number should redirect to trillion or to quintillion, as per Oleg Alexandrov, A Link to the Past, and JarlaxleArtemis above, is exactly why this page has come to VFD in the first place. See the edit history. It's not a settlable argument, as attested by Names of large numbers, list of numbers, Orders of magnitude (numbers), and English-language numerals, all of which already cover the several names that the number can have in various systems. 1 E18 redirects to Orders of magnitude (numbers). A 1000000000000000000 (number) article should do likewise. Just as 1000000000 (number) already does.
However, this isn't 1000000000000000000 (number). As per A D Monroe III, Kairos, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), 1000000000000000000 is the article title for a year, even though the article says nothing about the year at all. If it redirects anywhere, it should redirect to 11th millennium and beyond. Since there's nothing in either article about the year, and probably (given what Kairos says above) nothing to be said about the year, simply Delete. Uncle G 08:05, 16 July 2005 (UTC) reply
This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was move and replace with redirect.. – Rich Farmbrough 14:28, 31 July 2005 (UTC) reply
I think this should be either deleted or redirected to
trillion.
Oleg Alexandrov 00:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
reply
Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers states that only "some powers of ten" beyond 9000 warrant individual articles. The argument over whether an article about the number should redirect to trillion or to quintillion, as per Oleg Alexandrov, A Link to the Past, and JarlaxleArtemis above, is exactly why this page has come to VFD in the first place. See the edit history. It's not a settlable argument, as attested by Names of large numbers, list of numbers, Orders of magnitude (numbers), and English-language numerals, all of which already cover the several names that the number can have in various systems. 1 E18 redirects to Orders of magnitude (numbers). A 1000000000000000000 (number) article should do likewise. Just as 1000000000 (number) already does.
However, this isn't 1000000000000000000 (number). As per A D Monroe III, Kairos, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), 1000000000000000000 is the article title for a year, even though the article says nothing about the year at all. If it redirects anywhere, it should redirect to 11th millennium and beyond. Since there's nothing in either article about the year, and probably (given what Kairos says above) nothing to be said about the year, simply Delete. Uncle G 08:05, 16 July 2005 (UTC) reply