Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Industrial laboratory


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The result was redirect to Laboratory. Spinoff with more and better content later remains possible.  Sandstein  11:24, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Industrial laboratory

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Don't know if this is the right process, but article duplicates content found in Laboratory article and states Edison's Menlo Park Lab was first industrial lab in 1876 (from Time article) when it clearly wasn't. Alfred Krupp had one in 1863 in Germany, and various chemists allied to iron mines built the first prototype industrial labs around the 1850's, in Europe.

Possible merge with accurate facts or more balanced coverage would be ideal. Scope creep (talk) 23:08, 27 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Pls see below: Original comment: unneeded content WP:FORK & inaccurate information. This is strange cross of WP:PROMO for the laboratories listed with a hoax. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:37, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. a vert real topic about which dozens of  books have been written---se, jsut as a start, the LC listing at --some of these are directories, but many are more substantial. . The only problem is that is is woefully incomplete; what  it needs is expansion, not deletion, Edison's may have been the first in the US,  tho I'm not certain of that, so a worldwide view is required. Looking back over the last 15 years, most of our core articles have grown fro incomplete stubs like thia. The editor who stated this just needs encouragement. ``
 * Comment I agree wholeheartedly. Everybody knows there is far too much western bias on WP, but this takes the biscuit. A simple two second search on Google Books, or indeed several dozen sites would have show the facts clearly. Scope creep (talk) 12:24, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to laboratory. Doesn't seem clearly to be a separate topic. Blythwood (talk) 16:44, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Laboratory; not independently notable. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:40, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment I was talking to a research scientist at the weekend about this, he reckoned that almost everything you see that's man made, was invented in a research lab, So in that sense I agree with DGG, at some point it's going to be a huge article. The editor who created it does need encouragement. Scope creep (talk) 16:52, 3 October 2016 (UTC)


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