Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brecknell Willis high speed pantograph


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The result was merge to Brecknell Willis. Missvain (talk) 23:13, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Brecknell Willis high speed pantograph

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Fails GNG and does not cite any reliable sources  dud  hhr  Contribs 22:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  dud  hhr  Contribs 22:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because they are created by the same company and also fail GNG:



 dud  hhr  Contribs 22:26, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:19, 31 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Merge. The external link actually verifies much of the high speed pantograph article so it's not accurate to say it's unsourced, just lacking in inline references. There is a lot of information out there about the topic of pantographs, and this is one of, if not the, most notable at least in the UK (my knowledge on the subject doesn't extend further afield), but most of it is in offline sources AFAIK. Google books has lots of hits but as they're all snippet view I can't use them to reference the article. It's not surprising to me that a simple web-search for a very specialised subject that was developed in the pre-internet era and is essentially little-changed since then would appear to not be notable, but google hits are not the whole story. The other two are not as notable as the high speed panto but are nonetheless encyclopaedic. At least until someone with access to the sources significantly expands the articles they would be best covered together, hence my recommending a merge. Either a single article about Brecknell Willis's pantographs, the Brecknell Willis company (although I've not looked into how notable they are outside of this topic) or types of pantographs more generally. Thryduulf (talk) 01:24, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge. How can something that "is the mainstay within the UK railway system" and has "been exported across the world" fail GNG?!? As noted, it merely needs better referencing (likely to be found in old, obscure speciality trade magazines). AlgaeGraphix (talk) 04:25, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge all with Brecknell Willis and then create a short section on said pantographs. Nightfury 08:10, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


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