Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Table of voltages

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The result was delete. JohnCD (talk) 17:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Table of voltages

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Indiscriminate, un-maintainable list of trivial non-notable individual observations (of dubious accuracy at the moment). Millions of voltage measurements are made every day without being notable for an encyclopedia article. There is no criterion to exclude a voltage measurement or rating from this list. WP:NOT says this is not "A complete exposition of all possible details." and this table is no more notable than a collection of any other dimensions of physical objects. Nor is this the place for " Excessive listing of statistics." This table qualifies as a "terrible idea". Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dumping ground for random tables that don't give any understanding of *why* different voltages are used for differnt things. Wtshymanski (talk) 16:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I don't think it's a terrible idea for an article topic, but this seems to break all the rules for an article: unsourced, zero context, apparently original research, and not aimed at informing anyone. I guess I learned today that the proper name for a nine-volt battery is a "PP3 battery", but it might as well say "one of those little square batteries". At the moment, the article is too technical for laymen, too simplistic for electricians. May someone can take charge, give it some power, be a little more current, etc. Mandsford (talk) 20:27, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Orders of magnitude (voltage) would not be an unreasonable article, to go along with all the other Orders of magnitude articles we have. But this is so far from that (needs sources, needs greater logarithmic range, less clustered in the 1-100V range) ~~that I'm not sure if it's better to try to convert this to Orders of magnitude (voltage) or to nuke it entirely and start over~~. Chuck (talk) 20:38, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete based on DMahalko's nice catch of Volt#Common_voltages. Chuck (talk) 23:42, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Good idea for an article and done in good faith, but misguided due to lacking references and strange phrasing/terminology. I think starting from scratch on Orders of magnitude (voltage) will be less work than improving this and will also lead to a better article. Smocking (talk) 21:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This content already exists on Wikipedia, in a more complete form over here: Volt#Common_voltages DMahalko (talk) 23:40, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - already covered, as above. --John Nagle (talk) 21:23, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:50, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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