Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Text Input Device

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. -Scottywong | spout _ 16:31, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Text Input Device[edit]

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Broad concept, article has very little actual content and no refs, and at this state is not a useful WP article or even a useful stub. PRODded but was dePRODded by original author; commented-out the "notes to author"-type content but it was reinstated by original author. Original author says "is intended to be a entry/gateway/overview article with many links to existing pages", but in its present outline state it is not an asset to the encyclopedia. PamD 16:31, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - it is hard to see how the current WP:OR essay is going to find a worthwhile space in between Human interface device (which already has a neat list of bluelinked HIDs), Pointing device etc etc, and for that matter Keyboard (computing). The reference to "pressing letters into clay" (he means Cuneiform) is distinctly essay-like. We could suggest Fountain pen and its precursors as suitable places to mine for more TID information, but we're already way into WP:NOTESSAY territory here. Quick... fetch me a razor to scrape this parchment clean. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:10, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:11, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Wikipedia is not a WP:DICTIONARY. Msnicki (talk) 23:22, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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