Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wheelbench


 * 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 merge to Wheelchair. The consensus is more or less evenly split on whether to delete or merge, but per WP:PRESERVE I will err towards giving editors the chance to salvage what material they can. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 16:19, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Wheelbench

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Are these things actually in current production? Or is it, like the talk page says, something that only about a countable number of people actually use? That seems to be the case. This should be deleted. Maybe they can be mentioned in the wheelchair article, but this article is misleading. It suggests that they are in current production like wheelchairs, which doesn't seem to really be the case. RightGot (talk) 01:56, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk &bull;&#32;mail) 02:11, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disability-related deletion discussions. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:17, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kagundu  Talk To Me  01:42, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:06, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * delete There are two, count 'em, two real GScholar hits for these things as the article defines it, and one seems to be paraphrased from the other. GHits appear to more commonly refer to the a different contrivance consisting of a bench with a wheel at one end and handles at the other, allowing it to be moved around like a barrow, and most images of this seem to be of one particular object. And they get more scattered after that. What this seems to be is a coinage that pops up whenever someone puts at least one wheel on a bench, even if they aren't functional; but the number of hits are smallish, and don't seem to coalesce around any particular meaning, and especially not the one given in our article. Mangoe (talk) 13:18, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge A brief paragraph in the Wheelchair article would be sufficient. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Not being "in current production" is not at all a reason to delete. The term "wheelbench" referring to a wheeled bench that can sit doesn't seem to be an actual term.  Even the object in the photo more resembles a stretcher, which is probably where this article should merge into. --Oakshade (talk) 03:54, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge paragraph to wheelchair. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 09:35, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete -- It's unclean whether this is indeed a "thing" as no sources for this are apparent. There's nothing to merge as the article lists one link (presumably a forum) which is dead. So there's nothing useful in the article that could be merged. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:08, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge to wheelchair. This was "published" in 2009, but Disabled World News seems to take articles from anyone and the article was created prior to 2009. Here  is a blog where someone says they use it (and link to the WP article), so I don't doubt that it's real.  This company  says they sell them. Probably not enough here with RS for its own article. (There are also  outdoor stretchers used for all-terrain rescue. If those are covered somewhere, that could be another possible target). MB 20:01, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't tell how old the wheelchair marketer's page is, but the main page of the site dates only back to 2013, so it's pretty likely they've just copied that text from WP; there's no evidence that I see that they actually rent or sell such a thing. The other links all eventually end up at one person's advocacy site back in Norway, as does the one image we have (they uploaded it). Mangoe (talk) 11:42, 26 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete I can't verify any of this. There are definitely rolling stretchers, but that's different from what the article describes.  power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 23:04, 28 November 2017 (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.