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IPhone 2.0

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What do you have against robotics manufacturers? Rhenbelz 19:15, 5 April 2007

IPhone 2.0

A "{{prod}}" template has been added to the article IPhone 2.0, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Have a nice day. Running 21:28, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

MONDO Turf

A tag has been placed on MONDO Turf, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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AfD nomination of Trojan Balllistics Suit of Armor

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Proposed deletion of East Prairie School

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article East Prairie School, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

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Speedy Deletion tagging

Hello! When you add speedy templates to articles, like you did to Nevill Road Junior School, can you put a note on the author's talk page to warn them? Alerts them to the proposal and allows them to respond if they want to. Cheers, Avnjay^Talk 19:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, concerning this particular speedy tag, schools are explicitly not speedy deletion eligible, therefore I removed your tag. I recommend taking the article to WP:AFD if you strongly feel the school's article needs to be removed from Wikipedia. Thanks, Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 19:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Bensen-related articles

No problem - I'm very happy to help out, and it's great to see our coverage of Bensen's interesting and often off-the-beaten-track work get expanded. A few random comments, in no particular order:

Please be careful with copyrights! It's simply not sufficient to cut-and-paste someone else's work and just switch around a couple of words, as you did with the B-10 and B-12 articles. To make matters worse, the site that you cribbed these from (aviastar) is a notorious plagiarist itself, pirating text verbatim from other sources - I think practically the whole of Simpson's excellent book Airlife's Helicopters & Rotorcraft is scattered through that site. So lifting text from aviastar is actually lifting text from someone else. These two articles were so close to their sources that I actually deleted them and rewrote them from scratch.

I'm wary about the word "gyroglider". This was apparently coined by Benen for the B-5, and then used by him to describe the B-6 though B-8. More generically, these aircraft are called rotor kites. Bensen did the same thing with his autogyro designs, coining the word "Gyrocopter" so that he could trademark it. While it's true that he doesn't seem to have ever actually trademarked "Gyroglider", I think this word is better reserved as a name for referring to specific Bensen models than as something like a genericized trademark (ie, "the B-6 Gyroglider was..." but not "the B-6 was a gyroglider...")

Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 22:38, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I've actually put the Mid-Jet back to where you put it. The way that we organise aircraft content on Wikipedia, we don't generally have separate articles for separate variants of aircraft, and based on the information provided by Vortech, the Mid-Jet appears to have been just a B-6 variant. To be consistent with how other aircraft are written up, this would normally be included in the article on the "parent" type, which is why I merged it. On further reflection, I came to agree with you that the design was sufficiently different to warrant its own article. It's not always an easy call to make.

When in doubt, we're generally guided by the names and model numbers assigned by the manufacturer, and the fact that Bensen gave this one-off aircraft a distinct name of its own (rather than, say, "B-6M" or "B-6J" or something) was a major deciding factor; together with the fact that a set of significantly different specifications was available for it.

If you're interested in some of the issues involved, you can read more about them in the draft notability guidelines for aircraft. --Rlandmann (talk) 23:09, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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