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The result was redirect to Hatstand. Clear consensus that this is a duplicative term (future Mathematics aside) (non-admin closure) Nosebagbear (talk) 12:29, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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First, Twinkle seems to be broken. Does everything but post the content here. Maybe it's just me? Anyway:
The most that can be said about this article is WP:ITEXISTS. There are currently no sources in the article, with the sole one having been removed last year for lacking relevance and other issues, and a search on Bing and Google reveals nothing other than companies describing their product as such. The article itself reads more as dictionary definition than an encyclopedia entry. Overall, I am nominating it for deletion on grounds of lack of notability.
However, I am a bit confused on this topic; there might be no specific guidelines for products or product classes, but I still wish to get clarification as to whether a similar matter exists for this as does flora and fauna, in terms of automatic notability, and hence why I brought it here rather than directly to prod. -- NoCOBOL (talk) 12:10, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - Interestingly, there is a minor field of mathematical study called Hall Bases (part of Combinatorics), as part of which some journal articles have been written on Hall Trees and Hall Words.^[1] These would probably be better under a general article "Hall Bases", but as it stands it appears the obscure mathematical concept of Hall Trees holds more notability than these Hall Trees. -- NoCOBOL (talk) 12:20, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Hatstand. My UK dictionary says "hall tree" is a mainly US variant of "hall stand", and "A Short Dictionary Of Furniture" intimates that hatstands are a type of hall stand. Whatever, they only need one article, and the best one currently seems to be at Hatstand. Coat rack is another unreferenced one that should be redirected there, and also coat stand which currently points to coat rack.--Pontificalibus 12:28, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Redrect to Hatstand, and add a couple of words there to indicate that they are sometimes known as hall trees. If anyone ever wants to create Hall tree (mathematics), we could reconsider the redirect/add a disambiguation link. GirthSummit _(blether) 16:01, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Hatstand as above. --Lockley (talk) 22:25, 24 January 2019 (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.