Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Giant Hovercraft
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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 Delete Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] New Giant Hovercraft
"Planned, future", therefore violates WP:Crystal ukexpat (talk) 20:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Delete, poorly-sourced crystal-ballery. Elfits FOR GREAT JUSTICE (klat) 20:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Keep, if the Boeing 787 justifies an article then the New Giant Hovercraft does. RE the sources issue, there is plenty of info on the NGH, but unfortunately most of it is in blogs, which is why I've not used it. Mjroots (talk) 20:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Comment. Oh come now, what about WP:OSE? Even so, at least Boeing has rolled out a 787... – ukexpat (talk) 20:26, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- I've copied it back to my sandbox. If it goes, it goes. In reply to Stifle, the two sources I have used are not "poorly sourced" sources, they are reputable sources which meet Wikipedias criteria for such. As I said, there is plenty of info out there, but most of it is in blogs. Mjroots (talk) 20:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Keep The sources look good enough for me here; it appears to be a legit project-in-planning. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 21:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Strong Delete - While hovercrafts are cool and it may be legitimately PLANNED it nonetheless, like most corporate ventures undertaken by smallish companies it is not "almost certain" to happen. Thus this article violates WP:CRYSTAL which states: "Individual scheduled or expected future events should only be included if the event is notable and almost certain to take place." If we had articles on everything a corporation was currently working on, then WP would be a crazy non-encyclopedic place. Now if a government website published info on it, or a major news source had government officials talking about unveiling dates and contracts then we would have an article. Earthdirt (talk) 03:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- Comment - Atlas Hovercraft are not a "smallish company", they are a major manufacturer of hovercraft. Mjroots (talk) 05:56, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- Delete - the keep voters probably did not notice that the (only) cited article in from 2005 and since then not a single beep on the google radar. Laudak (talk) 04:28, 7 April 2008 (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.
