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The result was keep. Merger discussion can take place on talk page.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:52, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bang-bang robot[edit]

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Highly specialized term for a class of robots, the content could easily be merged to SMT placement equipment, which i was inclined to simply do, but thought a small discussion might be warranted. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:46, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge - probably to SMT placement equipment as nom says. There isn't enough here to justify an article; on the other hand, deletion doesn't seem appropriate either, so it needn't really have come here to AfD, merging would be enough. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:43, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Bang-bang is a control technique for robots and so quite a different topic from the purpose to which the robots are put. SMT assembly is a very particular application so is not at all suitable as a merge target. A page which could use some content about different control schemes is robot control. Warden (talk) 20:19, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge - Possibly to the Section "Control techniques" (which I didn't find) in the Article "Robot". Or delete, this one is not an article but a stub consisting of two sentences, the first beeing a word-by-word 100% paste of the content of its very reference, a copyright problem, I would say. --46.115.44.162 (talk) 14:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC) Marco Pagliero Berlin Robot[reply]

• Keep It is a stub, but the article deserves to stand for one simple reason - it is a field of robotics and type of robot in its own right. As such it deserves a separate page, and indeed a stub can be as small as one or two sentences "A stub is an article containing only one or a few sentences of text ...".

There is no need to delete it as it can be expanded, and if deleted will only need to be re-created again. It is a copyvio though, and needs rewriting. It cannot really be merged with anything, and its lack of an entry on the Robot article probably reflects that it is such a small part of robotics, though many were made, that it does not really need to be mentioned on such a wide-scope article. The other problem, as Colonel W says, is that the control technique should also be included. There are many sources that can be used, such as [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], and [6]. I will endeavour to expand this later tonight or tomorrow.

First, I will fix the copyvio issue immediately. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:45, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have attempted to fix the copyvio and expanded it and added refs. Chaosdruid (talk) 19:12, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 00:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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