Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anemostat

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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. Tijuana Brass (talk) 08:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anemostat

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Nothing to establish it needs an article of its own. No other wiki articles link here so not really even a disambig page. Hammer1980·talk 16:00, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - as per no reliable sourcing that can back up and claims and the fact that it says "..anemostat is registered trademark" shows it isn't NPOV. Rudget.talk 16:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep I see what you are saying Hammer1980, but the device appears in a large number of heating, room air conditioning, compressor and other such commercial catalogues. Its seems to be well established term. The article itself is dire. I think it has some merit and notability, but it if it is kept, it is unlikely that this article will ever be updated to Wikipedia standards. I think, put a stub in, if not amended in say 2-3 months, to a sufficient standard, the Delete. scope_creep (talk) 16:28, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete per Rudget :-) Stwalkerster talk 17:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I'm confused; this term occurs repeatedly in scholar searches. Nom seems to say it's an orphan... and? --- tqbf 18:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment - I was just trying to keep an open mind in case it was being used as a dismabig page in an article. Hammer1980·talk 20:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Seems notable given the large number of hits in google books and google scholar. If the name is a trademark, perhaps it can be named to something more generic. I don't know what the appropriate name is, but I'm guessing something like "airflow regulator"? --Itub (talk) 11:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment trademarks can be genericized via common usage, ie. Aspirin, Kleenex, Band-Aid, Q-tip, FireWire, Ski-Doo, Jeep. 132.205.99.122 (talk) 20:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as it is genericized and could grow much bigger. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:49, 20 November 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.