Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Eifler


 * Appears to be utter nonsense; nothing in Google, and the 'Nobody recognises him as the inventor, but ...' stuff is rather suspicious indeed. Delete.&mdash;Morven 06:51, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is really a eulogy to the indicator! - even if this article is factually correct, brief biographical details are all that's required to be encyclopedic and we don't even get those.Cutler 10:39, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * I hope you have read Talk:Henry Eifler. I also think this page is somewhat suspicious, but Google is not God: I've come across quite a number of subjects where you find "nothing in Google" but which are not "utter nonsense".  10:46, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Google is not the source of all knowledge, but I've got two problems. First, Google does link us to Oscar Simler as the invetor of the turn signal, and Henry Eifler triggers only Wikipedia mirrors.  If it can be validated, it can stay.  As it stands, we are misinforming. Geogre 13:34, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * While Google lacks deity status, the fact is that automobile topics are fairly well represented online. So one would expect to find SOMETHING on the guy.  I was surprised, in fact, not to find some large, obsessive website about his great contributions to mankind, since that's pretty common from the supporters of someone's claim to be the true inventor of (compare Erwin Komenda and his granddaughter Iris Steinenk's campaign to have him recognised as the true designer of the VW Beetle).  If nothing else, the fact that this story has, it seems, been published nowhere but here bars it from being here; Wikipedia Is Not a place for original research and theories.  I'd encourage Tim Glover, his great-grandson, who seemingly placed this article here, to document this much more fully elsewhere (whether in print or online).  THEN we might have justification for encyclopedia articles on the guy.  A web site with photos of the invention, etc. would have me much happier that there is at least a case to be made here. We certainly don't need proof that he DID invent the turn signal first, but we do need proof that this is more than some hoary old family legend and that there is a real claim here.  &mdash;Morven 18:49, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep if this can be verified outside his grandson's family tradition. If true, it's another of those interesting "also invented by" stories, as with the telephone, light bulb, and radar. We would need some other source, though. Then comes the POV cleanup. --Gary D 20:55, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I asked the original poster to give us some evidence of the veracity of this article, but he/she hasn't posted anything since April and didn't reply to my request. Delete.  RickK 18:34, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Has a smell of bogisity about it. Following reverted "contributions" of the author around the same time: and  do not speak for his (?) credibility. Delete. --Ianb 23:44, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)