Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red rocket (shotgun slug)

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 04:56, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Red rocket (shotgun slug)

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Article subject is a home-made projectile featured in a youtube video. This was picked up in brief articles by HuffPost and Wired during the moral panic about 3D printed guns. However, there is no WP:SUSTAINED or significant coverage other than these two brief, WP:ONE EVENT silly-season articles.

On closer inspection, the 3D printed slugs are just cylinders with a pointy end which could just as easily be carved from a length of plastic, so there's no novel or meritorious engineering involved either (i.e. unlikely to be further papers or coverage beyond what is already linked. A search turned up nothing new) - this article is just about a guy sticking a lump of (quite expensive, laboriously printed) plastic onto the front of a commercially-bought shotgun cartridge and posting it on youtube for lols. Does not satisfy WP:GNG. Hemmers (talk) 15:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Firearms-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:09, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as non-notable. Alextejthompson (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 16:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting as the article has already been PROD'd so Soft Deletion is not an option.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I expect that interest in this particualr item petered out quickly because it isn't even a very good shotgun slug. This is novelty ammo at most, even the two actual pieces of coverage acknowledge that and don't go into much depth about the actual projectile. That just is not significant coverage. --Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 20:17, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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