Commons:Deletion requests/File:Energy levels of hydrogen atom.png

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Should be:
——— zero total energy— unbound states
bound states
——— n = 2
 
 
——— n = 1

File:Energy levels of hydrogen atom.png

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Erroneous mixture of the sodium (energy levels) and the hydrogen atom (labels). You can find a correct scheme here.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:21, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete. Relative position of 1s wrt 2s is contrary to the Rydberg formula which prescribes 2s to lie three times closer to the zero level than to 1s (see the HTML diagram on the right). Thanks for helping to get rid of rubbish. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 15:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep: This picture is in use on multiple Wikipedias. Commons will not delete in-use files even if they're erroneous. See COM:NPOV for details. --bjh21 (talk) 17:02, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment: Should someone create a User:CommonsDelinker task to globally replace File:Energy levels of hydrogen atom.png with File:Hydrogen energy levels.png? -Apocheir (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No. The images are very different (not just in that the energy levels have changed). It's quite plausible, for instance, that projects might include text referring to the coloured arrows in the existing version. Once you've checked that replacement in a particular page is appropriate, doing it by hand will be almost no additional effort. --bjh21 (talk) 17:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete Image is no longer in use in any mainspace pages. Remaining usage is the hu:wiki user page of the guy who originally created this erroneous image, a pl:wiki userspace draft that hasn't changed since 2007, a pl:wiki translation project page to translate the hu:wiki page that's been archived since 2009, and a de:wiki project page comment from 2007 about how the image is wrong. -Apocheir (talk) 13:41, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I feel slightly wary of deleting a file that's only just been taken out of use, but I've withdrawn my "keep" above. --bjh21 (talk) 13:57, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:05, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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