Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of obsolete technologies

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 delete - Liberatore(T) 18:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of obsolete technologies

This is fundamentally a list which could have an infinite number of items on it. Anything from stone knives to last week's hot cell phone model could go here. Selection of which technologies to include is hopelessly POV and subjective. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:48, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete pn, hopelessly unmaintainable —Mets501^talk 04:15, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete too general. Nothing worth saving here, but perhaps the premise could still be employed by talking about specific technologies on different pages (redundant computer systems, navigation aids, domestic appliances etc). Jammo (SM247) 04:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The list could be infinite, and it's completely unmaintainable, considering every technology ever created will be obsolete sooner or later. -- Kicking222 04:48, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Might be useful as a parent for other lists, but a list this general will be terribly incomplete or too big to be useful. Ace of Sevens 07:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per nom - Motor (talk) 11:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete List would be impossible to maintain and huge for any completness. And what is obsolete to some may not be to others. Some might for instance say Vinyl is obsolete while there's bound to be others who say not —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ydam (talk • contribs) 12:24, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete You're kidding, right? List of obsolete...? KillerChihuahua^?!? 12:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I think this is interesting, and not too POV. A nice place to put things like punch cards etc. moink 18:59, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• Don't they still use punch cards though. Weren't their existance a big thing in florida during the 2000 election. I'm not sure you could argue that they are obsolete Ydam 19:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment as Devil's Advocate (and article's original author). I am somewhat saddened to see that folk don't appear to understand the difference between an 'application of scientific method to attain a commercial or industrial objective' and last week's hot cell phone model. Since this srticle has been in existence since August 2005, it either has merit or has escaped that fanatacist leagues of Deletionists - I would prefer to think of the former as I lament its inevitable passing <sniff>. Eddie.willers 04:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The article has multiple problems. One is that it's written in the style of an essay, not an encyclopedia article. That could be cured by a (major) rewrite. The real problem, however, is that the subject matter is inherently open-ended and thus impossible to cover adequately. Perhaps there should just be a category of obsolete things? Also, the fact that the article has been around for a year doesn't make it a good article; it just means nobody has noticed it yet. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. It is an interesting topic. Needs to be rewritten, and needs criteria defined according to a secondary source. I'm sure a ton has been written about obsolete technologies - deserves an article here. Aguerriero (talk) 17:05, 9 June 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.