Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Haynes Manuals

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The result of the debate was KEEP. Although I voted I have no conflict of interest, since the voting was unanimous and the nomination withdrawn. -Splash 16:37, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Haynes Manuals

Full contents: Haynes Manuals are a series of vehicle maintenance manuals from the Haynes Publishing Group. This is a one-line stub about manuals on cars - non-notable, uninformative, and unlikely to improve. Harro5 01:11, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and request expansion, in widespread near-Gospel usage in the UK. Gets 62,400 Google hits. Every home-mechanic has one for their current car. -Splash 01:56, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment Same status here in my neck of the woods too. This article is severely lacking in current form, sure, but the subject is dominant in their market, apparently worldwide. That's somehow notable in itself, I'd say. However, what can be said of Haynes that can't be said of any shop manual? And what would make an article on shop manuals (as these are called around here) encyclopedic? I'm abstaining from voting for now, to see how this develops. Friday 02:23, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Apart from the UK, there are offices of the company publishing in the US, Australia, France and Sweden. The strong Google presence [1] also indicates notability.Capitalistroadster 04:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Certainly notable and certain to improve. Maybe not this week, but Wikipedia isn't working to a deadline, and it should help that I have categorised it. CalJW 09:08, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, famous series (if only regionally), now is a decent article. Morwen - Talk 10:29, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• keep obviously. Dunc|☺ 14:22, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, amazed that someone has nominated this for deletion frankly jamesgibbon 15:58, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep: Haynes manuals are pretty much the standard for do-it-yourself auto mechanics' manuals. jglc | t | c 17:53, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and mark for expansion. Since the Chilton manuals went downhill in the 1970s and lost their market-leader status, the Haynes manuals have been the most popular and most well-known automotive repair manuals in several nations inclusing the USA, the biggest automotive market. More practical, substantive effect on people's lives is made by one Haynes edition (e.g. early-to-mid-Nineties Toyota Corolla) than by the entire discography of any pop music diva. Barno 18:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep, given the tremendous expansion since the original VfD, the "unlikely to improve" comment has been thoroughly disabused. Daedalus-Prime 19:52, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• keep and take notice Yuckfoo 22:23, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I started the VfD when the article was like this, but it has obviously greatly improved. The VfD is withdrawn. Harro5 22:47, July 15, 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.