Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of electricity and radio


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The result was   redirect to History of electrical engineering. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  18:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

History of electricity and radio

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Material is contained in History of electricity and History of radio. This article is unlikely to be expanded as it's title attempt to combine two complex well documented topics. Armstrong1113149 (talk) 01:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to History of electrical engineering. It looks like someone already merged most of this information into the Electrical engineering article -- compare the first paragraph of this article to the first paragraph of the History section.  Also look at History of electrical engineering.  Granted, that article has changed and been rephrased over the years, but most of the information is pretty similar.  Seems to me that this article is redundant and has gone unmaintained for quite some time now.  Matt (talk) 02:03, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Matt. Majoreditor (talk) 02:42, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Poorly researched little POV essay: "However it was not until the nineteenth century that research into the subject started to intensify." Lots of important electrical research was done in the 18th century. Researchers learned to generate enough current from a bank of Leyden jars to melt wire, established that positiva and negative electricity are more or less of one fluid, that there are conductors and insulators of different quality, that electricity travels too fast to easily measure, and a number of important discoveries. Duplicates material in better articles, and not a useful redirect term. Edison (talk) 19:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect as Matt suggests. Colonel Warden (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect this content fork to comply with GFDL attribution requirements. It is pretty clear that History of electrical engineering (currently a much better article) was originally derived from this article. DHowell (talk) 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


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