Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jibboom


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The result was   keep. Black Kite (talk) 20:50, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Jibboom

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. (PROD contested by the author, without any explanation.) JamesBWatson (talk) 14:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge Redirect to Bowsprit, not enough coverage in reliable sources for an independent article. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 14:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment well....... this link looks pretty good: for one thing. My advice would be to check the concept out in Google Books and see what you can find.--Coin945 (talk) 15:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * GoogleBooks was actually the first place I looked... I agree that there's a ton of mentions there, but none of them actually say anything much about the jibboom. Your link, above, is one of the better ones, but it does little more than simply define the term (and, per JamesBWatson's nomination, this isn't a dictionary). Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 15:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  — Frankie (talk) 19:01, 17 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment - interesting to note that jib boom is a redirect to jib. Haus Talk 02:22, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep -- The jibboom is a notable part of a ship. Wikipedia has articles for hawsehole, mainsail, hull, bowsprit, gunwale, etc., so why not jibboom? Maybe you can't write 10,000 words about jibbooms, but we have much less to say on pelican strikers and yet everyone agrees that the article pelican striker belongs here. Quinoaeater (talk) 05:03, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep part of what should be basic encyclopedic coverage of a notable subject. The various parts of a ship are notable, just as the different parts of an automobile are.  DGG ( talk ) 04:23, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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