Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of commonly known materials

List of commonly known materials was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

I have to commend the poster on their ambition, but this article is impossible. RickK 07:10, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete. Something for the categorisation system. &mdash; David Remahl 07:16, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Specifically Category:Materials and its many subcategories. &mdash; David Remahl 07:19, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. What exactly makes a material "commonly known", anyway? -- Ferkelparade &pi; 07:18, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * ...or a "material" for that matter? Delete. Cool Hand Luke  07:38, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * "Materials are inputs to production or manufacturing. They are often raw - that is unprocessed, but are sometimes processed before being used in more advanced production processes.", at least according to Materials and Category:Materials. &mdash; David Remahl 07:46, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Quilt? Snow? I dont understand their apparently eclectic definition. Cool Hand Luke  08:01, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I didn't say this article adheres to that definition. :-) &mdash; David Remahl 08:11, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be related to List of Lists useful for AI -- Chris 73 Talk 09:10, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * keep; but limit to the specific subset of Category:Materials that _are_ well known. Posiduck 12:07, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Please define that. It is inherently POV. Well-known by whom? By chemists? By chefs? By a general cross-section of the world's population? &mdash; David Remahl 12:31, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * And even if you _can_ define it, why not create Category:Well-known materials in that case? &mdash; David Remahl 12:32, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Category:Materials, title is POV. Gazpacho 13:27, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Topic is vague. --Improv 18:09, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, and delete all non-commonly known materials, they are non-notable. Trollminator 00:14, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Hehe. Even though I am a (moderate) deletionist, I find your humour, aimed at us, quite funny. :) Kudos to you. --Improv 20:29, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, at least have something of this effect in the enyclopedia. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  08:47, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, following David Remahl. &#8212; Bill 22:12, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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