Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High Shear Mixer

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 - non admin closure by nominator after progress made on the article. 7 ^{talk | Δ |} 04:28, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

High Shear Mixer

Unreferenced for two years, complete orphan, COI, SPAM (I don't like all the WP links to www.hielscher.com). 7 ^{talk | Δ |} 02:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator changed vote to Keep based on work done. 7 ^{talk | Δ |} 04:28, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

*Keep: my gods! it's dreadfully written. I had to read it three times to work out that it actually is talking about a device for mixing stuff together. However, there are good sources for what a high shear mixer is, and I think it could be saved.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 02:35, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, prune drastically. It reads as if it was written by a sales engineer, which it almost certainly was, but an aggressive copyedit and a couple of independent sources would fix it. Acroterion _(talk) 03:09, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a bit of a hack but am going to my bed now. Anyone else who wants to have a further go is welcome. I fear most of the sources will be manufacturers, but as long as we don't favour any one in particular, I don't see what is wrong with using their technical literature as a resource.Elen of the Roads (talk) 03:18, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from nominator - I've tried to do some work on this as well now, since I respect your opinions and have never seen Acroterion wrong before. I removed some blatant copyvio from [1] and removed the spammy ELs, but the more I dug the more it looks like this whole article was started by someone promoting (or copying from) www.ikausa.com. Almost everything left on the page now (aside from what you have added) is a very, very close paraphrase of their homepage (e.g. the "colloid mill" section). It looks like multiple sections of three-words in a row copying - look at these search results [2]. I'm willing to listen to you and withdraw this and do a NAC of this AfD, but this still seems like a mess - despite an hour of my effort plus all your efforts. 7 ^{talk | Δ |} 04:01, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I appreciate your confidence, but I'm wrong on a regular basis. It is a significant, but not widely noted piece of industrial equipment that's used to make all sorts of things, but there aren't any sources that I've found outside of the trade. I removed the highly technical sections as contextless in a general encyclopedia, and some of it looked like copyvio. I think this should live on as a stub for the time being, and I'll give it another whack tomorrow and see if I can add something. Acroterion _(talk) 04:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.