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The result was redirect to Bouncing ball. Kurykh (talk) 01:31, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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While an article could be written on the dynamics of bouncing ball (I actually intended to start a draft on this), this article really is about the super specific case of ball bouncing on a sinusoidally driven table, and it's more or less highjacking the legitimate article. All the publications come from Tufillaro and affiliates, and I suspect this article was written by one of them. So basically I'm invoking WP:PROMO/WP:OR and WP:TNT on this. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:17, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:35, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to to Headbomb's article on the physics of a bouncing ball when it appears in mainspace. The current brief article has changed topic twice, starting out as "Bouncing Ball Simulation System" for the Mac. In any case it doesn't cover the topic. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:56, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Headbomb's impressive opus when finished. Delete in the meantime, I guess; seems hijack-ey and promotional. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:26, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The nomination seems to want to clear the way for a rival draft and this obviously violates WP:OWN. If the nominator feels they can do better then they are free to amend the page in situ using ordinary editing. The case of the sinusoidally-driven table appears in numerous sources, including Vibro-impact dynamics; Applied Non-Linear Dynamical Systems; Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering Systems; Chaotic Systems. Our editing policy is to preserve successive drafts, not to delete rivals in order to drive them off. Andrew D. (talk) 22:08, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose this is correct, and the new material should be added into/over this rather than deletion and recreation. What's already there might make part of a subsection.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:22, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clarify: I'm not agreeing with the various insinuations above, but with the suggestion that the current article location be repurposed rather than deleted & recreated.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 12:27, 6 February 2017 (UTC) [reply]

I'd appreciate it if you didn't speculate on my motives and assumed bad faith from the outset. If you feel this is notable, fine, but as far as the topic of bouncing ball dynamics go, this article doesn't cover it. If you think this is worth saving and refocused on whatever the actual topic is supposed to be, moving the page to a different more accurate name can be done. But leave accusations of WP:OWNership out of it. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Note that the rival draft is now in mainspace. It seems that some other page was deleted to make way for it. Andrew D. (talk) 13:26, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No other page was deleted, actually, only a redirect left over from the page move of Bouncing ball (music). -- 120.17.99.113 (talk) 09:39, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to the now-existing and more comprehensive bouncing ball, and merge whatever may be appropriate from the history of this article.  Sandstein  15:31, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to bouncing ball per Sandstein, and merge the 15 words of referenced content. -- 120.17.62.166 (talk) 01:59, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect as my nomination.CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 20:54, 19 February 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.