Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guitar Resonator

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 delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Guitar Resonator

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This page is probably advertising that has slipped through the cracks. As has been noted on the Effects unit talk page this is a highly obscure, all but unknown effect. No notable sources found after Google books, news and scholar search. No mention of device in notable guitar magazines such as Guitar Player and Guitar World.--Atlantictire (talk) 15:07, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 18:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

• Delete - This appears to be a non-notable feedback device for electric guitars. I am unable to find any coverage about it. -- Whpq (talk) 17:30, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
• Delete - I also can find no coverage, and agree that the article is probably advertising-oriented. --DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:53, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
• You won't have found it, because — as, alas, usual for Wikipedia — we have two Wikipedia Product Placement articles on these things by their trade names, Guitar Resonator and EBow, and a redlink at electromagnetic string-driver which is the actual, formal and non-trademark, name for these things. Search for that, and you'll find things like John Schneider's The contemporary guitar pp 58 et seq.. Yes, this does cast doubt on vibrator (music). Schneider doesn't call them vibrators and nor does anyone else that I can find. You can get to a proper encyclopaedia without using the deletion facility by renaming vibrator (music) to electromagnetic string-driver and merging Guitar Resonator into it so that it's about string drivers in general. Uncle G (talk) 19:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, there's plenty of coverage on the Ebow,[1] so I don't agree that article should be merged as many articles exist for notable effects devices. There's no coverage of this specific product, the guitar resonator.--Atlantictire (talk) 16:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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.