Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of inventions shown on American Inventor


 * 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 '''There is no consensus here for deletion. This does not preclude of course; merging, cleaning up, sourcing, and or redirecting.'''. Navou banter 03:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

List of inventions shown on American Inventor

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None of the items on the page are notable for their own articles. Grouping a bunch of NN items together does not IMHO suddenly make them notable. The main American Inventor page already lists the finalists for each season, and IMHO that is enough. TexasAndroid 13:32, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I think listing every single invention could qualify as indiscriminate info. It's best to keep the most notable ones on the American Inventor article. Spellcast 13:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Move/Clean-up: Change the title to "List of finalists on American Inventor", and list only those. The AI article only lists the Final 4 for S1 and the Final 3 for S2. However, there were 8 that spent 50,000 dollars in S1 and 6 in S2. There would then be only 14 inventions listed in all. Codelyoko193  Talk 14:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Rename/Clean-up per Codelyoko193. Slartibartfast ( 19 92 ) 15:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This is useful for those doing research on past seasons of this series. Seriously, what harm is this article doing? Ball of pain 17:30, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: A lot of the inventions are not worth mentioning as they had no major effect on the series. Codelyoko193  Talk 18:07, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe Merge Maybe merge it into the main article? Red Fiona 18:17, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Am I allowed to post multiple comments? Anyway, no, because it would take up too much space.  Codelyoko193  Talk 18:18, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't know the series at all so I thought there could just be a paragraph saying 'other inventions included ...'. Sorry Red Fiona 18:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: It's OK, didn't mean offence. Codelyoko193  Talk 18:34, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: This is exactly what I said when someone brought up making a list of this on the Bulletball AfD. The list fails WP:NOT and WP:N. I've said this from the start. Douglasr007 09:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. The notable inventions (finalists/winners) of each season should be on the main article only. RobJ1981 10:16, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep More concise, and no less worthy of an article, than the endless episode guides for Scooby Doo, Buffy, Smallville, etc. The author has a gift for keeping descriptions simple, and for perfecting the list. Mandsford 17:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete.--Amadscientist 05:27, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep They are here in part because they are not notable enough for their own articles. That is one of the useful purposes of articles like this. show us where it says that everything on a list must be important enough for a separate article. I'm beginning to see what's up--the desire is to remove all mention of things not separately notable--not just all articles about them. It seems obvious to be that in talking about the more important things, you mention the others.  DGG (talk) 05:39, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This is useful. It is as useful as lostpedia or any other info on tv shows, maybe one of these will become famous even if we think they were not worthy. Keep for history archives. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Momhaydee (talk • contribs).
 * Comment I've already stated delete above, but I feel this must be said. Wikipedia is not a collection of everything that has ever existed. Imagine having an article on "List of meals shown on 30 Minute Meals". An episode guide does not belong in an encylopedia. I doubt that all these inventions are as notable as each other. If it is notable enough, mention it in the American Inventor page, but there's no need to list every single one. There are no multiple, reliable sources that assert each of these inventions apart from the show itself. Spellcast 17:20, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Suggestion The second season final show featured the judges ten favorites from the rejected candidates. Those ten, or perhaps the top five of those ten, could keep the list shorter and not indiscriminate.  I love the show, so because I'm so biased, I won't say keep or delete. Here's the list: (10) Howard Batterman with "Finger Tunes", (9) Richard Dessert Jr. and Richard Dessert Sr. with "The Escape Suit", (8) Rose Feller with the "Love Test", (7) Rayfil Wong with "Sober Key", (6) Evan Balasuriya with "Double Chin Buster", (5) Steven Cousineau with "A.C.E. Cycle", (4) John Sparks with "EZ Squeeze Ear Plugs", (3) David Le with "Helmet/Shoulder Pads", (2) Carlo Giancanti with "Copper Gear" and (1) Silvio DiSalvatore with "Black Cougar". --User101010 10:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep- I was flicking through AfDs..dull, dull, dull, dull...and then finally this one that is actually interesting! - I read the whole page. Aatomic1 14:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Week Keep needs to sourced better. Harlowraman 22:57, 10 August 2007 (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.