Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toepler pump


 * 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   speedy keep.  MBisanz  talk 16:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Toepler pump

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Doesn't cite sources. It also doesn't seem very notable to belong here. Possible SD? Beano (talk) 18:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I see a citation right there, at the bottom of the article. It's hard to miss, because it's in red.  In those 17 minutes between this article being created and your nominating it for deletion, did you look for sources yourself, as Deletion Guide to deletion, and User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage all say to do?  If not, how can any weight at all be given to your estimation of notability?  You don't know what sources exist, and so have no way to gauge notability at all  Notability is not subjective. Please consider helping new editors to get the markup right, instead of hazarding wild guesses at notability followed by nominating articles for deletion.  And look for sources yourself before nominating articles for deletion on grounds of notability and verifiability.  If you'd done even a few minutes' worth of research, you would have found quite a few books documenting this machine, and you could be helping to improve the article right now. Uncle G (talk) 18:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to Vacuum pump. This also should be discussed in the article August Toepler. A Toepler pump is a reciprocating mercury pump, well known since the 19th century, just like Geissler pumps and Sprengel pumps which should also have their own articles. The pumps have been extensively discussed in the literature independently of their inventors. Many reliable sources with substantial coverage of Toepler pumps exist to improve this article. See from Google Book Search in particular the book references (1894, American journal of Science), (1986, book) ,  (1915, textbook) ,  (2007 textbook). Edison (talk) 18:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's funny that you should mention Sprengel pumps., the creator of this article, also created Sprengel Pump an hour earlier. Uncle G (talk) 10:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * keep Per last two editors, plenty of sources. MadScot (talk) 19:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep More than notable. Famous. DGG (talk) 02:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Definitely notable. Mvjs  Talking  08:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I've cleaned up both Toepler pump and Sprengel pump, so they should be decent stubs now (though expansion is clearly welcome). I would particularly say that a description of the physical concept for the Toepler pump may be useful, as the current jumble of letters isn't too helpful to a new reader. nneonneo talk 13:37, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


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