Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electro Tone Corporation


 * 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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 22:35, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Electro Tone Corporation

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May fail GNG. All sources seem to be primary sources or original research, and a google news search for the company shows no results when the company's name is put in quote marks. InvadingInvader (talk) 05:11, 27 September 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 06:25, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. InvadingInvader (talk) 05:11, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:52, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete. Commend the nominator's tentativeness, as this was indeed a challenging one to research. Without a doubt, there are no reliable secondary sources cited within the article, and the article would fail WP:GNG on that basis. The challenging part is trying to prove that there is no SIGCOV in reliable secondary sources, because "Electro Tone" (as opposed to "Electro Tone Corporation") actually does generate a lot of hits across Google, Wikipedia Library, Newspapers.com, and the Internet Archive. As it turns out, "electro tone" / "electro-tone" / "electrotone" was a term used to describe the Hammond organs themselves, several decades before this particular company "Electro Tone Corporation" was set up to manufacture aftermarket add-ons to Hammond organs. Although there were a lot of newspaper advertisements by "Electro Tone Corporation" in the past, as well as continued interest in old Electro Tone components within the Hammond organ user community (e.g. in online forums), there just doesn't appear to be any reliable secondary coverage about the company itself or its products. But the good news for the Hammond organ user/fan base is that there is more information about Electro Tone Corporation's products available on other non-Wikimedia wikis, like this one. Cielquiparle (talk) 20:42, 6 October 2022 (UTC)


 * 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.