Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Semi-hydroponic for growing orchids

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Johnleemk | Talk 14:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-hydroponic_for_growing_orchids

Delete this very poorly written commercial spam - just trying to sell things at firsttrays.com BarryNorton 19:56, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Established yet trademarked growing technique that's easily verified. Needs NPOV removed, that's all. Since trademarked, mentioning firsttrays is unavoidable, IMO. --Perfecto 03:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Trademarked but not patented, since this is not novel - what's the value to Wikipedia of listing this separately from hydroponics and including the trademark? --BarryNorton 11:24, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Keep or Merge to hydroponics then. --Perfecto 15:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Difficult not to mention Ray when discribing semi-hydroponics. As to my poor writing - I`m not born in English speaking countries. Why not someone try to improve my writing --jmak 11:31, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd be happy to correct the English, but only as part of a merge with the general hydroponics page, or as a redirection to a new page on passive hydroponics (avoiding being named after / devoted to the trademarked name). In this context I think it would be fine to mention someone who's done a lot to promote, and enable, hydro techniques to a niche audience, i.e. orchid growers. --BarryNorton 06:36, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

All this sounds fair to me.

• Merge with Hydroponics#Passive_hydroponics per BarryNorton. --Kinu 06:57, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Lovely pictures. -- Marvin147 00:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

  Second the lovely pictures. Move to different name, using Passive hydroponics? KillerChihuahua^?!? 00:55, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

• Split Passive hydroponics out from Hydroponics and merge into that. Or keep. Kappa 04:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Kappa. Split passive hydro from hydro, merge into passive hydro. Makes sense. KillerChihuahua^?!? 11:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.