Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portable bicycle

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 keep. causa sui (talk) 03:07, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Portable bicycle[edit]

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Given that this is simply a type of folding bicycle, and a very wooly defintion at that with no quality references and a lot of POV/subjectivity, it would make sense to merge any salvageable content into folding bicycle then redirect. Biker Biker (talk) 08:18, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Any bike is portable. For those portable types which can be folded, we already have a separate article. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 08:26, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, not all bicycles are portable because they can be extremely heavy - cargo bikes, tandems and Boris bikes, for example. Warden (talk) 11:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep The nomination does not propose deletion. As for the topic, a portable bicycle is one that can be carried. This is a separate concept from folding as there are bicycles which can be carried which do not fold. Some of may simply be lightweight; others may break into pieces like the modern Moultons. The Bickerton was explicitly designed and named as "portable". That was especially lightweight and came with a carrying bag so that you could actually carry it. For a good example of a source which covers the topic in detail, please see Bicycle: The History. Warden (talk) 11:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Folding bicycle per WP:CFORK. —SW— ^spout 16:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep--you could presumably merge both articles, but my first instinct would be that portable bicycle is the main article, with folding bicycle as a sub-article if there's enough material. At any rate, the place for this discussion is the respective talk pages, not AfD. Meelar (talk) 18:26, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 18:56, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Folding bicycles are one approach to making bicycles portable, but as a topic notable and substantive enough to have their own article. --Lambiam 11:14, 11 July 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.