Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fender Stringmaster (2nd nomination)


 * 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 redirect to Fender (company). Star  Mississippi  02:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Fender Stringmaster
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Non-notable commercial product. Not much change in the 13 years since the previous nomination -- just the addition of original research material. Essentially unreferenced. Pretty eays to find trivial review coverage, but that doesn't satisfy the "significant" part of WP:GNG. -- Mikeblas (talk) 22:52, 25 January 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:54, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music and Products.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 23:28, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete No significant coverage. BruceThomson (talk) 05:51, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep: There are some decent sources at the last AfD discussing this model series' importance and use by lap steel players, and my own research corroborates this. Here's a couple other sources including one that says it "revolutionized the guitar world": . Why? I Ask (talk) 01:09, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fender (company). Have added some information about the Fender Stringmaster to the Products section of the main Fender company page. The Stringmaster does get mentioned in a lot of places, but it's usually just a sentence or two. For example, in the Gruhn book referenced above, the passage is a photo caption that reads In 1953, the Stringmaster models debuted with a double-pickup system. The new pickup, in single or double configuration, would eventually be adopted on all steels and would also extend to some low-end guitar models. It was also mentioned a lot historically in guitar magazine profiles of famous guitarists, when asked to list their favorite models. Unfortunately I'm not seeing anything in-depth enough to add meaningful citations to the content currently on the Stringmaster page, though, so for that reason I would say – redirect, and then any further (sourced) info found on the product could be added there. Cielquiparle (talk) 14:30, 3 February 2023 (UTC)


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