Talk:Ordinal scale

This should be translated into English!

I wrote that it should be written clearly, not eliminated. Ordinal scale is important in statistics, so an article is needed. However, it should explain this simple concept in simple language.Kdammers (talk) 13:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

The article as it stands is essentially a dictionary definition, and we aren't supposed to have articles for those. The fact that the concept is important has nothing to do with that point — dictionaries have words for lots of important things. The question is whether there's anything encyclopedic to say about the notion, beyond its definition.

My reaction is that there probably is not. If you think there is, please feel free to prove me wrong, by writing that content. Or you are free to simply remove the PROD notice (that's how PROD works), at which point I would probably take the article to AfD. --Trovatore (talk) 20:26, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

It isn't just important linguistically ( like "the") -- It is important per se (with-in statistics), and that does make it worthy of an encyclopedia entry. Take a look at the German Wik article. Kdammers (talk) 00:24, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

We have different rules and guidelines from theirs. --Trovatore (talk) 01:13, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

True, but if You look at their content, You see that in this case it includes encyclopedic information of the sort this article could use.Kdammers (talk) 02:01, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

I've merged the article into level of measurement, but go ahead and restore it if there's some reason why that won't serve. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:37, 19 April 2010 (UTC)