Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dremel

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 of the debate was Keep and the nomination for deletion was never actually entered in the deletion log. --Mysidia (talk) 01:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Dremel

Delete. Looks like an ad to me. --PrinceValium 08:43, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
Weak Delete. Looks like an ad to me to, so delete unless someone can put in balancing info' and rewrite.--JK the unwise 11:41, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
Keep I have since attempted a re-write, though it may still be a bit shaby it no longer reads like an add.--JK the unwise 10:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Keep Agreed that the article is weak and looks ad-ish. Still, a Dremel is a very useful tool, and I say that as someone who has never owned one. They have unusual characteristics, chief among them the very high RPMs they deliver, which makes them different from most competing tools. Finally, they can be used to destroy CDs in a most spectacular way: *http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm* -- I'm gcanyon I would have signed this message normally, but my password has gone missing and for some reason wikipedia seems to have the wrong email for me, so I may have to become gcanyon2 (pity me)
Keep and Rename Dremel is a company that calls its eponymous products "rotary tools". We should follow suit and rename this article Rotary_tool and redirect there from Dremel. The advertisement-like quality can then be remedied by talking about them in more general terms. Bgeer 06:41, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Its becoming a term like kleenex (anon user 66.230.81.23)

Keep and rename Dremel to rotary tool imho. (anon user 85.76.112.231)

Keep By all means keep it. It just helped me to figure out what a Dremel is. This is what is said on the forum of the LEO Dictionary about it: "Dremel is in fact a company that is famous for small tooling machines, especially for bouilding models etc. However, the word is now commonly used to describe the tool, even if it is not made by this company." As for renaming it: IMHO no one is going to search for "rotary tool" . Beeing redirected would be just annoying. (annon user 84.179.50.130)

Keep (and don't rename) - I didn't see the original text that apparently inspired this vote, but the only problem I see with it now is that it needs to be expanded. Also, the tool is widely known by its trademark name, to the point that I have heard "dremel" used as a verb. Unless there is a standing wikipedia policy of avoiding use of genericized trademarks in this way, the title should stay, possibly with a redirect here from "rotary tool" --Richarnd 16:25, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Keep - Dremel is used about the tool in general, not just the specific brand. People looking for an explenation will be looking for Dremel and not any other PC rename such as rotary tool. -- Jet 17:21, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Keep The name Dremel has become generic. The suggestion noted above, to redirect to Rotary tool, is a practical one as these tools certainly have their uses and therefore a place in the toolchest. -- Graibeard 09:00, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Keep (whether renamed or not) - As someone above said, I wanted to know what a dremel was so I typed "dremel" into Wikipedia and came here. I don't much care whether the page gets renamed "rotary tool" or kept under this heading, but if the former there should definitely be a redirect. As long as typing "dremel" still leads to some useful information, that's the important thing. -- 82.211.108.121 10:42, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Keep The name Dremel has become generic. Include a link to rotary tool and, maybe, mention other brands. BTW - It has been 3 months, everybody vote keep - and it is still on deletion watch? 24 August 2005

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.