Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hypnoscope


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The result was keep. Reasonable claims of SIGCOV have been put forward and not refuted. Vanamonde (Talk) 16:25, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Hypnoscope

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Fails WP:GNG, no real assertion of notability. Mike1901 (talk) 13:40, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


 * There are plenty of reliable sources touching upon the subject. Some medical tools for diagnostics may be obsolete, but people used them, and those tools take certain place in history of technological progress. The same article appeared in German Wikipedia 17 years ago
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypnoskop&action=history ForTheHellOfIt (talk) 16:20, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I can't easily evaluate the listed sources, but "touching upon the subject" isn't typically enough. "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." ~TPW 17:48, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, there is encyclopedia of physiology, written with participation of Charles Richet, which main topic is not a hypnoscope, but there is a whole chapter dedicated to the subject https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6364925r/f758.item#
 * As we can see, there were different types of hypnoscopes, made by Gessman, by Ochorowicz and by Gustav Wilhelm Geßmann,  maybe even more. Those devices were mentioned by different scientists, and there is a spectre of sources written in English, French, German, Polish and Russian languages.
 * There are plenty of sources, they are reliable and they prove that the implement existed and took part in medicine back in XIXth century. ForTheHellOfIt (talk) 19:41, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep, passes WP:GNG per the significant coverage in reliable, independent, secondary sources.

SailingInABathTub 🛁 23:48, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. A Newspapers.com search for "hypnoscope" in pre-1925 newspapers yielded 230 hits. A cursory glance indicates that at least several of these are in-depth discussions of the subject, such as this 1885 article in the Sacramento Bee. BD2412  T 02:52, 29 September 2022 (UTC)


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