Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Methane reformer (car)

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 was KEEP (no consensus). TigerShark 13:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Methane reformer (car)

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This article seems to be more of a half-started work or a scrapbook. The name Methane reformer (car) is used without there being any article called Methane reformer. The article should be completed or deleted. Tunheim 11:06, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep and move I see no reason in the deletion policy to delete this article. It should however be expanded and moved to Methane reformer as it seems to have nothing to do with a car. Mr.Z-mantalk 19:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The topic is already covered in steam reforming. This article adds little or no extra information. --Tunheim 11:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep I agree with Mr.Z-man that it just needs expanding plus amend the title. Plus it is a superset of the steam reforming article since it mentions both steam reforming and autothermal reforming, the latter of which I can't find mentioned in any other article. Alamagoosa 16:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

If you read the section on autothermal reforming closely you'll see that this is not so much it's own process but just a way of saying that the feedstock is providing the reaction energy for the process. The same concept is used in most any thermal reforming of an energy-rich substance. This includes numerous, possibly most, core processes in the petroleum industry, petrochemical industry, biomass refining and coal refining. Sometimes these processes might be named integrated or autothermal, but most of the time this would be omitted as it is the most common way to run such processes on an industrial scale. --Tunheim 22:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yuser31415 05:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of transportation-related deletions. -- James086^Talk 08:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect. This is going to be slightly complicated. There's no Methane reformer disambiguation page, so the article title is a bit inexplicable. I'd (a) move the page to Methane reforming as per WP:VERB and to retain the history, (b) merge and redirect with Steam reforming, and (c) delete the double redirect at Methane reformer (car) as the chances of anyone searching for those specific terms are slim to none. --DeLarge 11:51, 11 February 2007 (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.