Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open loop


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Open loop

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Unsourced stub since 2011. There doesn't seem to be a real topic here, maybe a definition at best, but WP is not a dictionary. Dicklyon (talk) 15:50, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. Is this better known by a classical Greek or Latin name, like so many other terms in rhetoric? If so, it would be useful to search for the older name. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 16:13, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete or at least move it to Tension loop: As I said during an RM discussion a year ago, I looked for sources that discuss this rhetorical device and was basically unable to find any mention of it by the name "open loop" (although the term makes sense). I did find some sources that called it a "tension loop". The editor who commented above added two sources to the article about an hour ago, but I reverted the addition. One of those sources cited Wikipedia as its source and the other one quoted Wikipedia's definition of the term word-for-word (and both were written after the Wikipedia article was). I somewhat wonder whether the term "open loop" even existed with this meaning before August 2011 when the definition was put onto Wikipedia without citing a source. The article contains nothing but a brief definition of the alleged term. Such a rhetorical device certainly does exist and is frequently used, but this is not the primary name for it and we would need more than a definition to justify having an article about it. Perhaps there is a third term for it that we have not yet identified, and there might even be an article about that already. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:33, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete- My research indicates that there is no real topic here. There are concepts called "open loop" in programming and in engineering, but this just isn't a thing. Reyk YO! 10:07, 25 June 2019 (UTC)


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