Talk:Carol number

RFV discussion: November 2021
A few minutes ago, I created Carol prime. I have loved number theory since I was in middle school, and it's natural I have been following the various "prime number class" articles on Wikipedia for years. Seconds after I created the new entry, I found a nasty surprise. Not only was "Carol prime" deleted in July of this year, but two months later, it was protected from recreation (sometimes called "salting" in WMF jargon). See this AFD over at Wikipedia for more information, but the crux of the final decision to delete it last summer was that it was unverifiable and not well-published. Therefore, I believe it is very legitimate to bring to question whether we should keep or delete the entry here, as entries in Wiktionary must be verifiable per Criteria_for_inclusion.

My favorite class of prime numbers are the Mersenne primes. For the uninitiated, the article is found here:. On the Mersenne Forum, there was a post on the thread about Carol numbers and Kynea numbers earlier today and that is what reminded me of Carol / Kynea primes just now. But my question remains: is "Carol number" an attested term? Inner Focus (talk) 15:40, 12 November 2021 (UTC)


 * It is now. cited. Kiwima (talk) 22:28, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The points brought up in the Wikipedia AFD sound very reasonable to me. Shouldn't we at least mark this as rare or, better yet, nonstandard? Fytcha (talk) 19:27, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * "Nonstandard" is for things where someone would say "that's wrong". This seems more like something where even a mathematician would say "what's that?". I know nothing about the rules for math terminology, but I doubt it breaks any of them. The Wikipedia AFD found it non-notable because there was no sign that any reliable mathematical source considered it important enough to write about, not because reliable sources said it was wrong. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:32, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Carol prime
Carol number  is cited, but what about Carol prime ? --Lambiam
 * That is cited as well. Kiwima (talk) 01:01, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2021 (UTC)