Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bucking bar

Bucking bar

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This article currently consists of an unsourced dictionary definition, and any additional future content could easily be included in Rivet or Rivet gun. The topic has no significance outside of its role in the riveting process. –dlthewave ☎ 04:00, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep. It seems like this is dlthewave's payback for me mentioning that I felt Stephen Paddock should not be given an article. I posted comments about thinking it didn't seem right that a murderer like Stephen Paddock be considered notable and be given an article - now with an expanded personal life section - versus someone like Heather Meyer who was killed at the Charlottesville Rally back in August. The user has edited articles on both the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally and the Las Vegas Shooting article. I've expressed my opinion that victims should be notable because focusing on criminals gives the criminal more attention and incentives further violence. In regards to the Bucking Bar article which I created after being surprised there was no article on Wikipedia about it, I have discussed with someone in the past on Wikipedia who agreed that since there is likely an article for Hammer, which is a tool which could be made of many different things, there should be an article for a Bucking Bar. I actually didn't know if there was an article for Hammer but was pretty confident there was one. Indeed, there is a very nice article for Hammer. There are whole companies which sell Bucking Bars. I feel there should be a Bucking Bar article. Synesthetic (talk) 16:31, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well... leaving aside the motivation here... there seems to be a lot to say about hammers, seeing as there are a gazillion types and they have been around since some Australopithecine got tired of bruising their knuckles. Is there much to say about bucking bars, beside the dicdef? "Piece of metal behind rivet" doesn't lend itself much to informative coverage in secondary sources... maybe etymology, but that's still within dicdef territory. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:41, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:05, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would move to draft pending potential expansion into something worth having in article space. With physical inventions, there is always something more than the etymology of the term. When was it first invented? Is there a specific person who came up with it, or did it merely come to be used in a certain time period without a specific inventor being identifiable? Has the invention been improved over time, and if so, in what ways? There's enough to say about it that this guy was able to make the video on this page. bd2412 T 17:17, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Rivet#Installation as a {{R with possibilities}}. There isn't enough for a stand-alone article currently, and with its additional context, the article rivet does a better job of describing what a bucking bar actually is. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:24, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Winged Blades^Godric 09:49, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The notability of this subject is undetermined and from the above it seems as if all relevant information is already covered in other articles. EvilxFish (talk) 22:38, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 10:31, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Rivet. We don't need an article on every component used in every process. There's more than enough information in rivet. When there gets too much there, we can bring the redirect out of retirement and give it a glorious page all of its own, fully described, referenced and duly polished. Until then... well. Nick Moyes (talk) 12:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Rivet#Installation -- the number of possible different shapes may be vast, but they're all about putting an anvil in place to strike against. As the bar serves no other purpose than to be used in the installation of rivets, it is suitable to merge and redirect. --Auto ^{(talk / contribs)} 00:37, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]