Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inverse vector

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:50, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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This article is based on a single source, published in a non-notable journal. It introduces a uncommon terminology ("inverse vector", "rectilinear vector", "angular vector") without defining it (except for the title of the article). This article may thus be considered as pure WP:OR D.Lazard (talk) 14:25, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete A new approach published just now (October 2017) is far not notable. Let us wait for secondary sources (or other signs of notability). Boris Tsirelson (talk) 14:57, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• delete. I’ve come across vectors like this before but never seen them called this – you just write them as 1 / a or similar. This is not standard or useful terminology.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 15:08, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Better, one writes it as ${\displaystyle {\frac {1}{|a|^{2}}}a.}$ Boris Tsirelson (talk) 15:14, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. 16:39, 12 October 2017 (UTC) XOR'easter (talk) 16:39, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as WP:OR — the author's pet terminology for a basic vector-arithmetic operation. XOR'easter (talk) 16:42, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. It could be said that the concept that is the subject of inverse vector is the result of taking the spherical inversion of the vector in the unit sphere. But that would suggest that the concept belongs more properly to a fuller discussion of inversive geometry and, in any case, would require independent sourcing that "inverse vector" is actually the proper term for this concept. Sławomir Biały (talk) 17:42, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This is recent enough that there are no independent reliable sources for this concept of inverse vector. Thus the article is original research by the WP definition and should be deleted. There does exist the concept of an inverse vector in Geometric_algebra#Definition_and_notation and one can create a concept of vector division in a quaternion rep, but neither of those are what is described here. --Mark viking (talk) 21:12, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete As noted WP:OR with no independent coverage or other support. Phil (talk) 23:06, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As per nom. --Bill Cherowitzo (talk) 18:25, 18 October 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.