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The result was Speedy Keep, nomination withdrawn. WP:NAC--Jmundo (talk) 20:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quaternion (disambiguation)[edit]

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The disambiguation page exists only to provide alternate (and obscure) dictionary definitions for quaternion. Looking through the page history, one finds that it also used to contain a redlink to an obscure musical composition [1]. Four years later, the redlink still has not been created. That leaves its only content as dictionary definitions. WP:NOTDICDEF, so it should be deleted. Ozob (talk) 09:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not only has Kusma found another meaning of quaternion, but it turns out that the redlink I mentioned above is mentioned on list of quarter tone pieces. Since there's at least three things to disambiguate, my former reasoning no longer stands. I withdraw the nomination. Ozob (talk) 20:29, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. The paper-related term may be obscure, but we have an article on the subject, so it's reasonable to have a dab that points to it. JulesH (talk) 10:09, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• If we remove the "four soldiers" per Wikipedia is not a dictionary, then the disambiguation page becomes unnecessary as a simple hatnote will suffice for paper quire. However, there probably exist some other obscure terms worth pointing at, for example in Armorial of the Holy Roman Empire. So I don't really see much point in deleting -- there will have to be some hatnote at quaternion anyway, and a disambiguation page is a cleaner solution than writing new hatnotes every now and then. Kusma (talk) 11:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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