Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lokata

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 No consensus (trending towards "keep" anyway) — Caknuck (talk) 20:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lokata

Lokata (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

• Non-Notable, I only just found a google books reference that this thing even exists. However I can't find any information on the actual device, nor the company that makes it whatsoever. Ryan4314 (talk) 15:01, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The article is not written encyclopedically, it has no clear or apparent notability, (the one refence that might suggest it even exists doesn't give any real information)--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 15:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - speculative, OR, uncited. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 15:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Ian Rose. Jonathan (talk • contribs • complain?) 16:03, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The Lokata exists, or existed. See http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22lokata+watchman%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= and the web pages that it lists. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Yes it exists, but so does my foot. That doesn't make it notable.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 17:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep Delete the existence of this technology/device is well attested on the web per below, but no evidence of notability, and poorly unsourced. JJL (talk) 17:06, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. 11,000 Ghits for lokata radar, despite the company being most active during the time the Internet has a serious knowledge gap--the 1970s and before are well covered via historians, and the late 1990s and more recent were described and cataloged in realtime, but in between coverage is relatively very thin, especially outside of popular culture. There are probably plenty of off-line refs. The New Scientist article verifying the Exocet/MoD connection seems to indicate sufficient notability. Shawis (talk) 00:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: Can you find a source for this Exocet story? I've googled over and over and can't find anything. Ryan4314 (talk) 01:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Sorry just looked at the refs you added to the article, the Exocet one is great (especially if you fiddle with the search parameters, you can finally catch a glimpse of the elusive Lokata Watchman).^[1] Well I'm willing to change my vote to a keep, shame you hadn't came along sooner. How did you find these references though? I really did spend ages looking! Ryan4314 (talk) 01:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
• Plenty of small-boat sailors used Lokatas. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep on the basis oft he present article and references.DGG (talk) 14:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Shawis. DuncanHill (talk) 23:24, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
• Weak keep - between the products, the company, and the inventor there are enough sources to justify an article. Addhoc (talk) 14:55, 6 January 2008 (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.