Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cryptometer

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. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:00, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cryptometer

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Non-notable product, closely paraphrased from source. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:17, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is part of the text, copy and pasted from the pdf I mentioned, this is not much of a paraphrase. I think it's kind of spammy, too. :)

"A coating is placed into the open area between the plates, form- ing a wedge shaped film (Fig. 1). By sliding the top plate back and forth, a sharp line of demarcation alternatively appears and disap- pears (Fig. 2). The point at which the demarcation line appears is read on the engraved scale (Fig. 3). These scale readings are easily converted into thickness in mils, or coverage in square feet per gallon using the table furnished with the instrument."

heather walls (talk) 09:26, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That which was blatant has been removed. That being said, such a tool could be the common name for something and thus a basic stub could be worked up. The spammy bits are gone. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:12, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. Agreed about the stub, strange that there wasn't some sort of article already. Good call, hurray for putting (kinda-spam) to good use. heather walls (talk) 16:35, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:43, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:53, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 04:35, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - WP:DICDEF that provides nothing more than dictionary.com Exit2DOS ^{• Ctrl • Alt • Del} 19:13, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to film applicator per WP:NOTDIC. Agree with nom that an encyclopedic article may be viable if sources are found in the future, but there seems to be nothing worth merging here. -- Trevj (talk) 10:55, 31 August 2012 (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.