Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of the lawn

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 redirect to Lawn mower. Although I've done a redirect here to Lawn mower, interested parties may explore the history link of the article and salvage/merge relevant portions into related articles, with appropriate reliable sources. In case any editor wishes the Redirect decision to be changed to Merge, please do mention the same on my talk page and it'll be done. Wifione _.......^{Leave a message} 08:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History of the lawn[edit]

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Wikipedia is not the place for poorly referenced, original research essays that have been largely plagiarized from other websites Favoid (talk) 18:05, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Obviously there are lawns, they have a history, and that history would be encyclopedic.

If this is a WP:COPYVIO, then we have ways to address that (and we don't do it through AfD).

If this is poorly referenced, or (which amounts to the same thing) it's original research, then we're all allowed to edit it and fix this. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ - That website probably started around July 24, 2008 (would have to see how the crawling works). Here is a historic version of wikipedia's page on the lawn mower from June 28, 2008. The website probably copied. MadCow257 (talk) 19:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I see that basically the same information, with sources, exists at Lawn mower and I think should wait/clean up before doing a WP:CFORK, so I would now support a delete of this page. MadCow257 (talk) 01:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~Merge~~ Delete as a fork of Lawn, which has a section on History. While a sub-page dedicated to history would be possible from there, this is marked by unverifiable assertions. Merge anything sourced and useful back to lawn and delete the rest. Carrite (talk) 19:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Upon further review, there is NOTHING here that is sourced. Carrite (talk) 19:48, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 17:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 17:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If we keep this, it should be moved to "history of the lawn mower", because that's what this article seems to be about. --Slashme (talk) 07:04, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be more useful to keep it as "history of the lawn", but expand the coverage to match. The lawn has interesting history before the mechanical mower. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:48, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Salvage portions for articles lawn and lawn mower provided, references can be obtained. --User:Warrior777 (talk) 08:51, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Lawn and Lawnmower. In general any article on a human cultural artifact will cover its history. BigJim707 (talk) 21:58, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge (as last two). The articel is much more about the history of the lawn mower than about lawns. The origin of the reel mower ought to be explained. I understand that its precursor was an invention for sheering cloth, previously a skilled occupation undertaken with sheers. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:41, 27 August 2011 (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.