Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kender engine

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The result was no consensus. MBisanz ^talk 13:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kender engine

I cannot work out whether this is a poorly written description of a genuine, might-work machine or a won't-work, perpetual motion machine. But either way round there is no evidence of notability. - Sgroupace (talk) 05:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Three hits returned by Google [1], one is to this article on Wikipedia and the two others to the website. Obviously not notable in any way. Equendil Talk 05:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. After reading Equendil's comment, I searched the Internet concerning the technology ("Kenderv energy", "Kenderv energie" - the technology comes from France and was originally spelled "Kenderv"), and posted 5 links I found (all in French - I did not find info in English besides the two links mentioned by Equendil) on the "Kender engine" wikipedia page. Baracudai, 17 September 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Baracudai (talk • contribs) 15:21, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Yeah you can find a few pages in French, some self published stuff, a few forum threads and a short article in a regional newspaper, still not notable by any stretch. Equendil Talk 22:17, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I wasn't sure about this, so I looked at Stirling Engine, which this engine is apparently a derivative. Stirling is a member of WP:PHYSICS and WP:TECHNOLOGY, so I added this AfD to those project pages, in order to garner more feedback. Lazulilasher (talk) 17:17, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep...for now: I don't know about notability. I never heard of this, and it looks like a self-promotion article. I'll give it a quick rewrite to remove whatever blatant cruft I can, but I can't judge wheter or not this is a legit technology, or even notable. Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 06:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. —Lazulilasher (talk) 17:17, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. Mainstream media coverage seems thin on the ground. Stifle (talk) 10:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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