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The result was merge with sword making. I have redirected it there. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 05:16, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sword sharpening (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This article survived deletion once before under the circumstances that it would be fixed up. That was in 2004. This article is really the same thing as the sharpening article, except that this is completely unsourced and appears to be OR, as well as containing information not pertaining to the actual subject DurinsBane87 04:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Unsourced and original research. Gorkymalorki 05:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• This article seems like a very general and supercilious extrapolation on what any Boy Scout learns about sharpening knives. --Haemo 08:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep. Not everybody was a Boy Scout, and may be informative to a fair audience. Iotha 09:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article isn't informative, though. It's also completely unsourced, and the sharpening article covers the same exact topic in far greater detail. DurinsBane87 12:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See also WP:INTERESTING --Longing.... 21:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Doesn't seem that this article can be sharpened enough to be anything but a HOWTO. --Tikiwont 12:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with sword making, an article that also needs serious help. But the manufacture of swords and the history of the techniques used to make them strikes me as an entirely valid subject. Quaere, do we have an article on Damascus steel? - Smerdis of Tlön 16:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - per nom. Usefulness is not a standard of keeping an article. Wikipedia is not a repository of manuals --Storm Rider ^(talk) 01:16, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• What this article needs is a brief but trenchant treatise on the role of the sword-sharpener in Celtic and similar cultures, as exemplified by the references in the Celtic-Arthurian legends, with discussion of whetting stones, dark and light side sharpening, and so forth.

Without this the article is pointless (rather like the ill-kept sword) -- SockpuppetSamuelson

• Keep, or maybe merge with sword making. Mathmo ^Talk 22:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with sword making per Mathmo and Smerdis. Bearian 23:58, 8 August 2007 (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.