Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horizontal boring machine

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 keep. No consensus to delete. Weak consensus to merge but no consensus for a target. That can be discussed on the article's talk page (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Horizontal boring machine

completely unreferenced essay on a piece of technology that may or may not be notable but it's impossible to tell due to the lack of [[]] links, WP:RS and the essay format of the article. HJMitchell You rang? 16:49, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Milling machine. Tevildo (talk) 17:13, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Redirect hmmm, has anybody worked out that there would never be a machine called a horizontal boring machine, or is this article just POV? A bloke called Andrew^Convos_{My Messies} 20:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment. Horizontal boring machines are already covered at Milling machine#Other milling machine variants and terminology. It's certainly not impossible that they could get their own article at some stage. But I don't think that stage has been reached yet. Tevildo (talk) 20:34, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Our coverage of topics like this is very incomplete. The best way to encourager expansion is to have separate articles for the major types of machinery. DGG (talk) 00:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep The nominator is expected to do the initial screening work per WP:BEFORE. AFD is not cleanup. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Boring (mechanical). (I'm unsure whether they come under Milling machine or they are just similar.) Holkingers (talk) 13:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - deserves mention in Milling machine but I tend to think the technology from 1981 (the Cites copyright) has advanced somewhat. Especially when you consider Boring (mechanical) states "boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled"... are we to expect a Horizontal drilling machine next? Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 07:08, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

comment - Horizontal drilling already redirs to Directional drilling so merges seem to not be uncommon here. Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 07:11, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a citation to a source published in 2007. There are hundreds of sources avaialble for this topic whose notability seems beyond doubt. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I Agree the Topic is notable, but the fact that this article is about a single direction of boring does not make it Independently notable from the overall topic of Boring. merge. Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 10:27, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge. Being a stub is not a reason to delete. Maybe a reason to merge, but it seems this is a stub that can expand, per User:Colonel Warden's sources. Doesn't really matter if it expands as a seperate article or a section in a parent article.Yob Mod 09:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per DGG but not Colonel Warden. Merge would also be fine, but there is sufficient source material that a spinout would be needed eventually anyway. - 2/0 (formerly Eldereft) (cont.) 15:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.