Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walt Langendorfer

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The result was delete. Tone 19:57, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Walt Langendorfer

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A guy who had some patents. No demonstration of notability. Mccapra (talk) 19:06, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. While being involved in gun design (and patents) may be lead to notability, in this particular case I don't see how sources in the article establish notability and I don't see much more in my WP:BEFORE - fails GNG. Icewhiz (talk) 06:09, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This seems to be an inside-out article, a different topic being hammered unnecessarily into the shape of a biography. Not everything in Wikipedia should be presented in the form of biographical articles. Almost all of the article seems to actually be about gas-piston operation of firearms (see for example ISBN 9781466588813 pages 21–23), which would be a sub-article of Gas-operated reloading#Gas systems much like direct impingement is, including a simple namedrop of an inventor of one mechanism. Uncle G (talk) 08:30, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I agree with Uncle G. Though looking at Gas-operated reloading#Short-stroke piston I'm not sure what there would be to add to it from the article we're discussing as the description provided seems pretty comprehensive. Mccapra (talk) 10:44, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is not a biographical article, it is an article about his invention. Uncle G calls it an inside-out article, I call it WP:COATRACK. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:17, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a non-notable product designer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:19, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Seems like a notable inventor. passes WP:ANYBIO. Look at the search here. Perhaps investigate WP:PRESERVE WP:ATD Wm335td (talk) 19:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment @Wm335td: which of the links in this search do you think are reliable independent sources? Mccapra (talk) 05:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Was merely commenting on his contribution and how widely recognized it is in his industry. Wm335td (talk) 18:51, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see two things in that search that might be notable, sadefensejournal.com and smallarmsreviews.com, where Langendorfer gets a brief mention. The rest are all blogs, forums and similar that we don’t accept as reliable sources. So I still don’t see anything that helps him across the notability threshold. Mccapra (talk) 03:34, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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