Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Life spans of home appliances


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The result was delete. This is the dictionary definition of WP:OR, and the one dissenting comment did not address this at all. Daniel (talk) 06:58, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Life spans of home appliances

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This is quite possibly the most WP:OR ridden article I've ever seen on Wikipedia while simultaneously being the most useless. Products lifespans have no one size fits all but especially in such broad areas with thousands of manufacturers for any given product. Anything that can be reasonably and reliably sourced can be merged into Home appliance, which is still a stretch. GRINCHIDICAE🎄 20:39, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  22:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Products-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  22:02, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

--Genetics4good (talk) 09:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Aside from the fact that life spans of appliances range from different manufacturers, the life spans of appliances can range dramatically depending on the use of appliance, maintenance, etc. there is no way to incorporate such variables into the article to make it accurate. JayJayWhat did I do? 00:48, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: exceptionally clear example of OR.  // Timothy :: t | c | a  02:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Move to Home_appliance#Life_spans or Planned life spans of home appliances. I see I made this quite a few years ago. I never add things without a reference and all data I input is based on sources (and there are sources for the life expectancies listed, see the reflist). @Jayjay, @TimothyBlue, you mention that the lifespans of the machine depend on many parameters. While true, in most instances, home appliances are planned to last for only a certain length of time (planned obsolescense). This tends to be measured in testing labs, where the machine is used many times by another machine, until breaking point. So, with the article, I actually refer to the "Planned life spans of home appliances". I think it's a shame to remove the info (I don't care if the article itself is deleted though, as long as the info is then moved to Home appliance). Its important to list the info to get a baseline so that at the very least consumers know the baseline planned life span.
 * Delete. This is original research. Ajf773 (talk) 09:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete These aren't the average life spans of home appliances, but the average life spans of a selection of home appliances in one country from a 13 year old study. The items with alternate sources are also problematic (e.g. the lightbulb lifespan of 1,000 hours refers to the period 1923-1940). The article appears to have been created as a WP:SOAPBOX regarding planned obsolescence, hence the second unreferenced columns in the tables. Pontificalibus 14:29, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * delete per everyone else. Dronebogus (talk) 14:13, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - I can't see any way that this article could be rescued and turned into an encyclopaedia article Spiderone  14:22, 17 January 2021 (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.