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- 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. Icewedge (talk) 07:16, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Italian Inventions and discoveries
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This list is arbitrary, unsustainable and indefensible. It includes inventions by cultures (Latin alphabet) that preceded Italy, inventions by Italian expatriates working for other countries (nuclear reactor by Fermi), concepts that can't really be called inventions at all (art academy), inventions that are widely claimed by others (light bulb), etc. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 22:32, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Is there any reasons for keeping this tendentious page? Bigshot4ever (talk) 23:48, 18 November 2009 (UTC)— Bigshot4ever (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
KeepComment At first glance, it would appear that WikiDan is correct. Indeed, I started typing a 'delete' !vote - but then I looked into it a bit more. Let's look at the first few entries:
A-B on the list: which are correct?
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So I feel that this article needs work (wikilinks, removal of some of the entries, conversion to a proper table) - but it works as a list - although I would probably rename it to "List of..."-- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 00:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. I appreciate Phantomsteve's point, but this will never work, even as a List article. What is an "Italian" invention or discovery? Something invented by an Italian it Italy? An Italian outside of Italy? A non-Italian in Italy? An Italian-American (whose descended from Italian immigrants) outside of Italy? Roman inventions? Inventions by Roman citizens outside of what we would now call Italy? Inventions made by the Ancient Greek colonies in what is now modern Italy? Hence the problem... Singularity42 (talk) 02:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete How I would define an "Italian" invention or discovery is: one which is done by an Italian/Roman in the area that we now call Italy. I'll be honest, my initial thought was "delete", and after some more thought, I am going to change my !vote to "delete", as it is too problematic to clearly define the criteria for inclusion on the list. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 02:29, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. For many discoveries in the list, the priority can well be debated, thus an obvious POV issue. (technical note: poor formatting). Materialscientist (talk) 06:30, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nomination. Nick-D (talk) 07:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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