Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taniguchian telescope


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The result was delete. Patents are not independent secondary sources, so do not contribute to showing notability, and other sources appear to be lacking. RL0919 (talk) 19:30, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Taniguchian telescope

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Does not meet WP:GNG: No significant coverage besides the patent. No indication that such a telescope was ever built or that it was discussed in scientific or technical literature. Count Count (talk) 17:49, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Products-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 17:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 17:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Seems no evidence of significance at all. The reference in Japanese does not seem to be anything to do with telescopes, but features Taniguchi, who says he wants to implement his telescope. And note also that "Taniguchian" is likely to be a self-invented faux-adjective; needs considerable evidence to show this as an English usage. Imaginatorium (talk) 19:16, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete There isn't evidence of significance of the telescope, and there aren't enough sources on this in English, and it doesn't appears to be notable. It also has been nominated for deletion on Japanese Wikipedia. Cheers. Tahaaleem  Talk 19:42, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Absolutely not notable. (To anticipate a potential objection, I will mention the following. The creator of the article, who has dedicated a significant amount of effort to trying to get articles on this topic established on several Wikipedias, objected to the deletion on German Wikipedia on the grounds that the telescope is a Japanese invention, and is therefore unlikely to show up in German-language searches. I have therefore searched for タニグチ式望遠鏡, which the creator of the articles gives as the Japanese name of the telescope. I found hits on Japanese Wikipedia, Wikimedia commons, several Wikipedia mirrors, Twitter, and several other Japanese web sites which were clearly similar repositories for user-submitted content, and also none of which had more than brief mentions of the telescope. It is perfectly clear that the attempt to explain away lack of sources found in searches as being because all information about it is in Japanese is totally spurious. There is no substantial coverage of it in reliable sources anywhere, in Japanese or any other language.) JBW (talk) 22:35, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Zero notability whatsoever of telescope and inventor, therefore already deleted on dewiki and frwiki. --Müllt-Renner (talk) 05:37, 3 August 2021 (UTC) ....and ãlso deleted on jawiki. --Müllt-Renner (talk) 16:07, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * KEEP USPTO.report is a Significant coverage described in Notability. Therefore, this invention described in the document is notable. --Süd-Russisches (talk) 07:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I fail to see how the fact that Taniguchi-san filed a patent for his idea, could anyhow match the criteria under WP:GNG. -- Müllt-Renner (talk) 08:19, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * (to Müllt-Renner) In ja:タニグチ式望遠鏡 it is wriiten that 「2015年特許庁に特許申請、2016年に特許取得後、国際出願を経て、2019年4月米国特許として認められる. 」（Patent application to the Japan Patent Office in 2015, Japanese Patent in 2016, through international application, US patent at April 2019）
 * (to JSW) You write spurious, what is the content ? (Please show some of them.)--Süd-Russisches (talk) 13:17, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

(to JSW) I feel you are misunderstanding my message I wrote at 19:13, 2. Aug. 2021 (CEST) in de:Benutzer Diskussion:Karsten11. I think that it should be better to discuss it in de:Benutzer Diskussion:Karsten11 than here.--Süd-Russisches (talk) 13:42, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete That guy ain't Newton, that's for sure. Maybe there are Japanese sources that remain undetectable (if there are, they would be pretty definitely undetectable to me), but absent such, there is insufficient coverage to show notability. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 01:08, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. --84.115.228.224 (talk) 20:42, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Not all telescope inventors are as famous as Newton.--Süd-Russisches (talk) 16:19, 8 August 2021 (UTC)


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