Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article Incubator/ITablet (2nd nomination)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was  delete, with histmerge. --BDD (talk) 16:35, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Article Incubator/ITablet


See discussion at WT:Article Incubator/ITablet. There is an interesting story here, but not the one on the Article page. To use Wikipedia to synthesize the available sources would be WP:SYNTH. Based on the sources now listed, a Taiwanese company registered the name in 2004 and went to being British owned, while rumors leaked that Apple had selected the name for what is now the iPad. The article has the story of the report that a competition iPad was being released, just weeks after the release of the iPad. The current info is that the product is a keyboard. I looked in both Google books and on the web for a synthesis of reports about the history of the tradename. Meanwhile, "X2 Computing" and "AMtek" are topics that appear to be under-covered in the encyclopedia. As per Ultra-mobile PC, AMtek was the 2nd company to release a UMPC.

As a further complication, there is an existing article at Itablet, with an associated talk page.

IMO, this is one of those cases in which a double redirect is correct. Itablet should redirect to ITablet with a nobots template, so that however ITablet is handled, Itablet will follow.

There is also an issue in that the mainspace article has been indefinitely protected. After asking the admin, this seems to have been a misunderstanding. The article in 2007 and that in 2010 were different, and the 3rd deletion was not done because of a re-creation. The third deletion was done to remove an improperly attributed copy of the incubated article, which was copied to change the redirect into an article. A redirect out of AfD is not binding, and although it may be helpful to have incubated articles protected, keeping the article protected going forward would interfere with someone wanting to edit the article.

As for this MfD, I propose that the edit history for the incubated article and the incubated talk page be history merged in mainspace at ITablet and Talk:ITablet, the redirect at ITablet be restored, both targets be marked with lowercase, protection removed, and the incubated article and talk page be deleted. Unscintillating (talk) 23:37, 10 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I was notified about this (which is much appreciated :)) and I don't have any view on what should be done. -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 11:43, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom - The edit history for the incubated article and the incubated talk page be history merged in mainspace at ITablet and Talk:ITablet, the redirect at ITablet be restored, both targets be marked with lowercase, protection removed, and the incubated article and talk page be deleted. -- Jreferee (talk) 02:54, 3 September 2013 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.