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The result was Redirect to Ternary plot. JamesBWatson (talk) 00:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Simplex plot

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Fails WP:GNG, or if that's questioned, could be redirected/merged with Plot (graphics), which, ironically, doesn't even wikilink to this article. Also, article is unsourced and has had virtually no attention since its creation years ago. Bbb23 (talk) 14:14, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:03, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Ternary plot. The Google Books hits provide sufficient evidence that it's another name for a ternary plot. In fact, this name is already mentioned in that article. Can't see anything in this article worth merging though really. (I guess strictly speaking the term 'simplex plot' would include similar plots in more than two dimensions, but i didn't come across any when browsing the Google Books hits.) Qwfp (talk) 16:43, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to simplex plot in the ternary plot article is somewhat ironic as it has a fact tag that's from May 2011. The only material in the simplex plot article possibly worth keeping is the sentence about the axes - assuming the book is a source for that and it's not simply WP:OR.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

While the Maynard Smith book uses the kind of plots described (viz. on p. 19), it does not use the term "simplex plot" to refer to them, but just calls the plot "a diagram". Google book and scholar search show that the term "simplex plot" is in widespread use with the same meaning as "ternary plot", and such use is clearly not specifically confined to the realm of game theory. --Lambiam 15:56, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 05:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Ternary plot, the already existing article for this topic. -- 202.124.74.80 (talk) 02:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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