Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zero seek


 * 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 delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  00:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Zero seek

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While this may be notable (there are some passing references in my GScholar BEFORE), what we have is pure WP:OR - content tagged as unreferenced for over a decade, with no interwikis. It is pretty much orphaned (just two mainspace articles link here) and outside the lead is underlnked This is outside my field of expertise, so I cannot even comment whether what is written about here is related to the uses I see in GScholar. If someone improves this, great, otherwise, a redirect somewhere could be considered as well. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:32, 16 March 2024 (UTC) Relisting comment: Relisting, hoping for some expertise in coming days, to help decide whether this article should be Redirected or Deleted. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 04:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:39, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Engineering and Computing. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  04:32, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Redirect to stepper motor. One, the current state is completely unacceptable - not a single source, and has been so for more than a decade. This cannot remain in mainspace in this form. Two, a large part of the text is concerned with background already given at stepper motor and would be superfluous if the rest was embedded there; that would make a good subsection, not an article. If anyone wishes to add sourced content, it can be added there. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:30, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article is WP:OR, combining the concept of a zero seek interface command with the discussion of obtaining zero position in an actuator that uses open-loop control. I'm not convinced a redirect is a viable option, as I couldn't find any sources that would use the term to define the mechanism as described (it usually refers to relative motion rather than absolute position). Even if it is, neither the stepper motor nor a number of other related articles I looked at contain any information on the subject. PaulT2022 (talk) 23:23, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Elmidae FYI as this addresses your proposal. I have no opinion as I am not familiar with the topic beyond the basics. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 00:34, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Neither am I, really. If someone who actually understands the topic states that no reliable sources at all can be found, then that does point to delete. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:15, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Note that on 17 March 2024 User:Лисан аль-Гаиб added three references to the article without commenting in this AfD. However, only the first reference appears to use the term in a way that could be possibly relevant to the article, and doesn't mention anything such as "hard end-stop" and "sensed end-stop", to which three paragraphs are devoted.
 * I expect there to be sufficient sources somewhere for this subject overall, but probably under a different name, perhaps "return-to-zero". If someone is interested in covering this topic, e probably should do that in a section of stepper motor. But in the current form the article is better gone per WP:TNT. NicolausPrime (talk) 21:21, 2 April 2024 (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.