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 keep and cleanup. While not everyone explicitly mentioned cleanup in their statements, it certainly seems to be implied in most. Non-admin closure. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 15:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gun safety[edit]

Wikipedia is NOT a how to guide. This article is simply an article on how to "safely store a firearm, load a firearm, protective gear", etc. Ideally this could be transwikified to another wiki, maybe somewhere in en.wikibooks. However wikipedia is not a how-to guide. Mønobi 02:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, much of the article does currently read like a how-to guide, but that's a cleanup issue. This is a notable topic. --Pixelface (talk) 04:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as I'm sure one could write encyclopedically about important concepts in gun safety. This is not doomed to be a how-to guide forever. Zagalejo^^^ 04:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and cleanup. —Travis ^talk 04:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Clean this gun (i.e. keep and cleanup) per everyone above. Gun safety is definitely a notable topic, and I'm sure that this can be turned into something other than a how-to. Unfortunately, the only thing I shoot is the breeze, so I can't help out much here. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 04:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, this is not a how-to-guide; it is, I will admit, currently a how-not-to-guide, and perhaps a warning about beans would be appropriate. The goal of an encyclopedia is to remove ignorance, and how to handle firearms safely is a suitable topic. That some would prefer that there not be firearms to be safely handled is a different topic. They're here, and they go BANG! when mis-handled. htom (talk) 04:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, there's already encyclopedia article lurking in there somewhere among the how-not-to, e.g. the section Gun safety#History and teachers of gun safety. There's also plenty of academic papers on the topic which go beyond a mere how-to and study e.g. effectiveness of programs, like: [1][2][3][4][5][6]; these can be used to further expand the encyclopedic content of the article. cab (talk) 05:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Keep in mind that some subjects are impossible to write about without spilling over into a "how to"-style. How are these rules supposed to be described without citing the rules themselves? A cleanup, yes. Deletion, absolutely not. --J-Star (talk) 06:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There's definitely potential for an article here. Maxa megalon 2000 06:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and clean-up. There is plenty from which to work on here, to fix the current "how-to" flavor. Yaf (talk) 06:11, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.