Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blendo

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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blendo

No reason to think this bot is notable. Also no citations —— Eagle 101 ^{(Need help?)} 20:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment How would you rate the trickle-down notability from its creators? Maybe merge into their userpages? (Just a thought.) -- Ben 00:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
See also The other robots in the BattleBots category. -- Ben 00:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Obviously Verifible it needs to be cited and cleaned up but I do think notability has been established. EnsRedShirt 12:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- How? How do you think notability has been established? -- Ben 03:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Blendo is a supremely notable combat robot. It was the first successful 'full-body' or 'shell' spinning weapon implementation. Blendo proved the utility of the stored kinetic energy weapon that has come to dominate the sport. It also promoted the development of more effective arena containment to protect audiences from flying debris. Further, the robot was deemed so dangerous that it was granted co-championship of the 1995 Robot Wars event on the condition that it withdraw to aviod potential injury to the audience. 167.131.0.153 16:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I'm with you. I agree that it's an important robot in the field of battling robots. But notability isn't "per field." It's WP:N. And I don't think that's being met yet. -- Ben 16:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I count 35 individual robot pages in Category:Robot_Wars_competitors and another 4 in Category:BattleBots. Few of them are for robots as important in the development of the sport as Blendo, yet this is the only page being considered for deletion. That puzzles me. 167.131.0.152 15:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's a robot that competed in the notable "Robot Wars" and "BattleBots" competitions, and was built by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage (two very notable television personalities.) Or, to put it another way, I believe the thing's been on national tv...ok, that's not exactly the same thing as notability, but it's close. In any event, it is covered by multiple non-trivial published works - it's been covered by the San Francisco Chronicle [1], appeared on the aforementioned national tv, etc. (And, to make a particularly weak argument, it is as notable as your average pokemon character.) --TheOther Bob 16:29, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Seems notable in its field and has one secondary source. So, there probably exist multiple non-trivial works about this. Thus, all the big policies (WP:V, WP:N, WP:RS) are taken care of. --- RockMFR 23:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per RockMFR, interesting article which meets the relevant content policies. (jarbarf) 18:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Article has citations and topic has notability. Xuanwu 05:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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