Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bong patents


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  17:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

List of bong patents

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A list of extlinks to patents. Nonencyclopedic. WP:NOT: Wikipedia is not web directory and not a collection of indiscriminate information. There are millions of patents in the world of varying notability and triviality. Notable, i.e., well-known and discussed patents must be desribed in the corresponding articles. Laudak (talk) 14:45, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Almost an A3 for containing little else than a restatement of the title and external links. Should be deleted anyway because Wikipedia isn't a link farm. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!) 15:02, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete A link farm. Wikipedia is not your personal webspace. This seems to have previously been in the bong article. Some of these could be used as references in that article, but as a standalone article it clearly fails WP:NOT. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 15:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Interesting, but there isn't a great deal of information about what these particular steps along the march of progress actually achieved. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete The USPTO web site and search engine already exists and would be used for research on bong patents, not wikipedia. Useful info as part of relevant articles, not standalone. -- Quartermaster (talk) 16:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete worthless list. Bigdaddy1981 (talk)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as A3 per TenPoundHammer and so tagged. Vquex (talk) 16:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * delete but not speedy--a list of patens is more like a bibliography than a list of external links, even though the patents are linked, just as the books might be. But this is definitely not encyclopedic content. DGG (talk) 17:09, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep this was how to get loaded in the patent offices - for anyone recreating their own tiny smoke house a valuable resource. Free the bong patents and anyone will be making pipes to load down. King of the Fondue (talk) 13:53, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


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