Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laundry machine


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect to Laundry. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 06:49, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Laundry machine

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Not a dab page and not necessary. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:22, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:14, 29 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete There is scope in Wikipedia for an article or even two about the mechanisation of clothes laundering domestically and commercially, which arguably had a considerable impact on women's lives and contributed to freeing them to work outside the home. That would cover a good deal more than the modern concepts of washing machine and dryer. For example, in the first half of the last century most homes would have possessed what in England was called a mangle, for squeezing out the water before hanging clothes to dry. And for those who could afford it, commercial laundries provided mechanised labour saving solutions before they became available to most households. This article title is not well suited for that and a list of this sort is of no value to users. --AJHingston (talk) 13:13, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:38, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:35, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete While "laundry machine" is not a neologism, having been around for over a hundred years. It is an obsolete term of the type that is formed in English when technology is new. I agree with AJHingston that this is not a useful disambiguation. While not a model, the existing Laundry article picks up the kind of slack that this short ist would address. --Bejnar (talk) 04:05, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unnecessary disambig. page. Keb25 (talk) 21:35, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, two topics, neither primary. I'm unclear as to where the delete votes would have readers who enter "laundry machine" end up. If it's deleted, they'd end up at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=laundry+machine&fulltext=1, which would be less useful than the disambiguation page. If it should be a stubbed article for the group of machines that are laundry machines, that's fine too, but that's a reworking, not a deletion. -- JHunterJ (talk) 23:42, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete or Redirect to Washing machine or Laundry. A dryer is not generally considered to be a laundry machine. Abductive  (reasoning) 03:45, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete There is a list at the bottom of Laundry which includes both of these and others. They are also introduced in the article. P.S. In the USA these machines are called "washers and dryers" not "laundry machines."Kitfoxxe (talk) 05:31, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect to Laundry. The current Laundry article has the same information, and although I doubt laundry machine is a plausible search term, there's an average of 10 hits a day that may find a redirect useful. Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:30, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.